Oh, my. Argentina really is poking the bear. (Or rather, the bulldog.)
In this new spot for Argentina's Olympic team, field hockey captain Fernando Zylberberg run through the Falklands, and (according to Yahoo! News) ends his workout "on the island's Great War Memorial, which honours British sailors who died in World War I".
The tagline then claims the islands as "Argentine soil"...
For those of you not born yet 30 years ago, at the time Great Britain and Argentina went to war over the desolate British territorial islands off the southern coast of South America. 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 British military personnel and three Falkland Islanders died during the conflict, which the Brits won.
Argentina has never given up its claim to the islands, however, and has been making increasingly threatening statements about having another go at them.
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague was unimpressed by this attempt to politicize the Olympics:
"Of course in Britain we remain absolutely steadfast in our support for the self determination of the Falkland Islanders and we will always support that," he added."It is a rather sad stunt, it won't impress anybody in the world. We are not do going to take any actual action in response to it."
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