Talk:Iraq at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Broken Sentence
The Sentence 'However, in the wake of the ban, despite being consoled by her coach, Abdul Rahman, who assured her that she could compete in the 2012 Olympics, Hussain was quoted as saying "In this horrible situation, who can say I'll even be alive in 2012?"' - Doesn't seen quite right, its long and rambles quite a bit. Im not particularly qualified to edit it myself, but I thought i should make someone aware. Silvestra (talk) 16:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Who was running the committee?
If the chairman and several other members have been missing since 2006, who was actually running the committee? Some referenced explaination of this would be nice. I presume someone was running it, otherwise the government would have said that none one was running it since most of the members were missing instead of "the previous one was corrupt and had not been functioning properly" (surprisingly enough, they don't mentioned the missing members at all) Nil Einne (talk) 20:52, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Found brief discussion in one of the references which I added to the article. Nil Einne (talk) 20:57, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Evidentally the lack of sufficient members for quorum was one of the concerns expressed Nil Einne (talk) 21:12, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Purpose of this article?
I realize that it made the ITN section today, but from a long-term perspective, should this article exist? We don't have specific articles for every other instance where a nation didn't compete at a Games. For example, there is no United States at the 1980 Summer Olympics or Soviet Union at the 1984 Summer Olympics. In the past, when we created stub articles for a nation's planned participation, and that turned out to be false, we deleted the stubs or changed to redirects. For example, Nations not competing at the 2006 Winter Olympics was created to handle several of these (see Articles for deletion/Morocco at the 2006 Winter Olympics and Articles for deletion/Jamaica at the 2006 Winter Olympics for the discussions that led to the mergers).

As of today, it sounds like there is still a chance that the competitors in athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics might still make the Games (although the other sports are ruled out), so we should hold off doing anything until at least the opening ceremonies to see what happens, but if Iraq is not represented at all, do we really need this article over the long term? Perhaps a section in the top-level Iraq at the Olympics would be more appropriate. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 00:48, 25 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I have no problem using this to collect information until the matter settles and we can get some perspective on it. Nothing is set in stone on Wikipedia; as consensus develops, we can put this information wherever is most appropriate.  --Doradus (talk) 16:52, 25 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I guess one of the differences is, this is a single nation who were prevented from competing due to the fact they didn't obey the rules. As such, there is perhaps specific sourced info about what happened that prevented them from competing. Compared to US in the 1980 where it basically overlaps with many other nations. Having said that, while adding stuff to this article I was unsure how much detail we should cover since it seems some info may be more suitable for an article on the Iraqi NOC Nil Einne (talk) 17:22, 25 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok, maybe a more directly comparable example would be Afghanistan at the 2000 Summer Olympics, but yeah, I agree that we should wait a couple of weeks before deciding what to do with the article. I like your idea of working on National Olympic Committee of Iraq, because as you say, the referenced sources are mostly about the NOC and not about the team of 7 competitors. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:33, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Current Event
I added a current event info box at the top of the page. Just making sure readers know that this event could change in the near future. Hurricaneguy (talk) 05:01, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Last missing name
I could identify all the athlete except the discus thrower. Anybody knows where to look to dig this up? Circeus (talk) 00:24, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Take a look here. Haidar Nasser Abdul Shaheed is the only discus thrower from Iraq in the IAAF database with recent results.  "Haidar Nasser Abdul Shaheed" shows up in several other related Google results (this shows an 11th place finish in the 2006 Asian Games, for example). — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 05:22, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Medal tally
The medal tally should really read "NA" rather than "0". Sad mouse (talk) 22:48, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * That's an issue with the template,not the article. Circeus (talk) 22:50, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Why is "NA" more appropriate than "0"? — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:55, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It was before they were allowed to compete. Now that they have two competitors though it's not Nil Einne (talk) 09:51, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, during the five days they were barred, I modified the infobox to omit the tally altogether, so I think this comment refers to the current status. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 16:22, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

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