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German cycling official sent home for racist slur

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The BBC did not say exactly what he had been accused of saying but Japanese Yahoo quotes the UK Guardian translating from the German, "Overtake those camel drivers (camel merchants)!"

(ラクダ追い)たちを追い越せ! ラクダ商人たちを追い越せ! やっちまえ!」

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Article here for those who read Japanese: https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/db07650e1fde1a11562362cee370d0ff1661a026?tokyo2020

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The Algerian cyclist kept a cool head and quipped that he had taken up cycling since camel driving wasn’t an Olympic discipline.

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