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    The Tweet That Got An Athlete Expelled From The Olympics

    How one track and field athlete punched her ticket home.

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    This is 23-Year-Old Greek triple-jumper Paraskevi "Voula" Papachristou. She earned a spot to compete at this summer's Olympics in London.

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    But then on Sunday she tweeted the following:

    Twitter: @papaxristoutj

    This roughly translates to:

    AP / AP

    (Translation via Google)

    The comment caused an uproar in Greece and Papachristou was removed from the Olympic team.

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    She has since taken to Twitter to apologize.

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    This apology was posted in both English and Greek.

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