Austria -- Four Vienna police officers have been suspended from duty after they allegedly made crude and racist remarks to a two-time Austrian Olympic athlete.
The four were relieved of duty Thursday pending an investigation into the incident, which officials said happened on Sunday — the latest in a string of scandals implicating police in the Austrian capital.
Tuncay Caliskan, a taekwondo specialist of Turkish extraction who competed for Austria in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and 2004 Athens Olympics and hopes to make the team for the 2008 Games in Beijing, said the four used extremely foul and abusive language and repeated racist slurs.
Caliskan, 29, said the officers ridiculed him when he went to a police station for help after an unknown assailant threatened him with a baseball bat, and that the situation rapidly escalated at the station.
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North Korean 'invasion'
Canada -- Nova Scotia's former black-belt premier, Russell MacLellan, has been fighting North Koreans in Austria.
MacLellan, a 5th dan in tae kwon do, recently returned from Vienna, where he testified in a court challenge aimed at stopping a North Korean invasion of the International Tae Kwon Do Federation. MacLellan was president of the federation for a year after the founder of the martial art, Gen. Choi Hong Hi, died in June 2002 at the age of 83.
"When General Choi died, there was a North Korean group that wanted to take over," MacLellan said. "To some extent, they forced their way in. Now we're trying to unravel it."
Yes, it seems the land of Kim Jong Il wants both nuclear weapons and roundhouse kicks. You see, the International Federation is headquartered in Vienna, and its rival, the World Tae Kwon Do Federation, is based in South Korea. That leaves North Korea out in the cold.
"The North Koreans want their own tae kwon do federation, so they saw this as their chance to do it," MacLellan explained. "They hate being left out."
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MacLellan, a 5th dan in tae kwon do, recently returned from Vienna, where he testified in a court challenge aimed at stopping a North Korean invasion of the International Tae Kwon Do Federation. MacLellan was president of the federation for a year after the founder of the martial art, Gen. Choi Hong Hi, died in June 2002 at the age of 83.
"When General Choi died, there was a North Korean group that wanted to take over," MacLellan said. "To some extent, they forced their way in. Now we're trying to unravel it."
Yes, it seems the land of Kim Jong Il wants both nuclear weapons and roundhouse kicks. You see, the International Federation is headquartered in Vienna, and its rival, the World Tae Kwon Do Federation, is based in South Korea. That leaves North Korea out in the cold.
"The North Koreans want their own tae kwon do federation, so they saw this as their chance to do it," MacLellan explained. "They hate being left out."
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