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BBC NEWS | Athletes 'go missing from Games':

Australian police say nine athletes have gone missing from the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

They include seven competitors from Sierra Leone, along with others from Tanzania and Bangladesh.

Team officials have said they have no idea if the athletes are hoping to apply for asylum in Australia.

I know how I'm betting. I don't know how Tanzania is, politically speaking, but I hear Bangladesh is overcrowded and becoming polluted, and Sierra Leone guys will probably not get shot in Australia.

If I was them? I'd hop the fence and make a mad dash for the promised land. Heck, it'd be the only reason I tried out for the olympics. I'd love to immigrate to Australia, and I'm not even getting shot at or impovrished in my home land..