Norway's sports bureaucrats drop underwear maker
Dear all
A big success for the Triumph/Burma campaign: Triumph International
has been in the head lines in Norwegian newspapers just before christmas
(see press article below). Athletes refuse to wear Triumph underwear
during the Olympic games.
Newspaper in Norway, 20/12/01
Aftenposten English Web Desk
Sports bureaucrats drop underwear maker
Olympiatoppen, which oversees commercial contracts for Norway's
top Olympics-bound athletes, has bowed to pressure from both the athletes
and organizations and is dropping a contract for underwear made in
Burma.
The sports officials had struck a deal with garment maker Triumph,
which was going to provide underwear for the women athletes. But
Triumph has a factory in Burma, and several organizations immediately
objected to such support being lent to an oppressive military regime.
A press release Thursday from Olympiatoppen reported that the group
was taking the objections seriously.
"I think it's fine that athletes have reacted and that they
don't want to wear garments from a firm with production in a country
that violates human rights," said Olympiatoppen chief Bjørge
Stensbøl.
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/sports/article.jhtml?articleID=248880
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