Okies, so a number of athletes from the Sierra Leone team have gone "missing" while they're here in Melbourne for the Commonwealth Games.

Sorry, but is that just too much of an effort to become an illegal immigrant, if that's what they're trying to do? Like, get up early every morning for training, do lots of exercise, run around, work your butt off to get into the Commonwealth team, get sponsors, blah blah, just to say to yourself, "Yeah, now I'm here, I think I'll bugger off into the suburbs!"

Hmm... Oh well :)

Apparently a number of athletes from the same country did that at the last Commonwealth Games and people from communist countries used to do it with the Olympics. As good an excuse as any, and probably safer than a rickety boat anyways.