A German rower is on her way home from the Summer Games, agreeing to leave the Olympics earlier than expected after reports of her ties to a Neo-Nazi group have surfaced.
Nadja Drygalla, a member of the eight women in Germany's rowing crew that had already been knocked out of the Games, had planned to stay in the Olympic village for a bit longer. But according to the Huffington Post, she's had a "detailed and intense conversation to avoid creating a burden" on her team with German team head Michael Vesper.
The 23-year-old rower is in a relationship with a member of Germany's far-right National Democratic Party (Ndp). The site Spiegel Online International says that she is suspected of sympathizing with the right-wing extremist ideology of the Npd, which authorities describe as racist, revisionist, and hostile to the German constitution. Although technically legal, and although the Ndp does have representatives in state and municipal assemblies,...
Nadja Drygalla, a member of the eight women in Germany's rowing crew that had already been knocked out of the Games, had planned to stay in the Olympic village for a bit longer. But according to the Huffington Post, she's had a "detailed and intense conversation to avoid creating a burden" on her team with German team head Michael Vesper.
The 23-year-old rower is in a relationship with a member of Germany's far-right National Democratic Party (Ndp). The site Spiegel Online International says that she is suspected of sympathizing with the right-wing extremist ideology of the Npd, which authorities describe as racist, revisionist, and hostile to the German constitution. Although technically legal, and although the Ndp does have representatives in state and municipal assemblies,...
- 8/3/2012
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