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Old 09-18-2011, 03:10 PM
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Meh...the "illusion" that the women are actually from the country they represent has been going on for years. Porntip Nakhirunkanok, who was Miss Thailand, won Miss Universe but had been living in the US since age 2. Often, Miss Great Britain is generally American raised as well...as long as you have the British passport to prove it, I think that's about all that counts.

Kinda like Olympians who don't qualify for their own "regular" country, so they shop themselves out to a country who will let them compete for them instead, like Milorad Čavić, the American born "Serbian" swimmer who gave Michael Phelps a run for his money. I think Čavić's parents are Serbian, so I guess in the eyes of Serbia, he is too.

Oh well...shrug.

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