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Taiwan give extra protection to Israeli athletes at World Games
Jul 2, 2009, 13:30 GMT
Taipei - Taiwan will provide extra protection to Israeli athletes during this month's World Games following a request from Israel, an official confirmed Thursday.
Chen Hsien-tzung, deputy director of the Sports Affairs Council, said Israel had requested extra security for 11 Israeli athletes taking part at the Games from July 16-26 in Kaohsiung, south Taiwan.
'We will allow the Israeli athletes to stay together at an unspecified place, and provide extra security for them at the venues of competition,' an organizing committee official told the Germany Press Agency dpa.
The World Games, held every four years, feature more than 30 sports which are not included in the Olympic Games. They include martial arts, artistic roller skating, billiards and tug-of-war.
Eleven Israeli athletes and coaches and a West German police officer were killed at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in a terrorist attack by a militant Palestinian group and subsequent abortive police rescue attempt.
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