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Callum Skinner clebrates gold in Rio (copyright Alex Whitehead SWpix.com via Britishcycling.org_.uk).jpgCallum Skinner asks Leave.EU campaign not to use his photo
Callum Skinner, winner of Olympic gold in the team sprint and silver in the individual version of the event, has criticised a group campaigning for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union for using his image in a video it posted to Twitter.
Leave.eu, co-founded by UKIP donor Arron Banks and which had the party’s Nigel Farage as its figurehead during the referendum campaign, posted a video to Twitter yesterday which began with the words “We’re too small” and “We need to be in the EU” before showing a succession photos of Team GB medal winners from Rio - presumably to try and show those statements were wrong.
@LeaveEUOfficial @TeamGB thanks the the support but I wish you wouldn't use my image to promote your campaign.
— Callum Skinner (@CallumSkinner) August 16, 2016
The pictures included one of Skinner with Jason Kenny, who beat his colleague from the team sprint in the individual event, and who went on to win the keirin yesterday evening.
Skinner seemed to have qualified for the semi-final of that event after crossing the line first in his repechage round, but was relegated for illegally entering the sprinters’ lane.
The Scot, who turns 24 on Saturday, tweeted in reply: “Thanks for the support but I wish you wouldn't use my image to promote your campaign,” followed by emojis of the EU and union flags.
His tweet, sent from Rio, has received more than 4,000 likes and 2,500 retweets.
During the referendum campaign, Leave.EU was reported to the police for incitement to racial and religious hatred for a poster that had the text “Breaking Point” and “We need to break free of the EU and take back control of our borders,” accompanied by a photograph of a queue of migrants and refugees taken on the Slovenia-Croatia border last year.
Some might see it as hypocritical, then, that among the athletes used in Leave.EU’s montage is 10,000 metre gold medallist Mo Farah, who arrived in the UK aged eight from Djibouti, where he and his twin brother had been sent by their mother due to the ongoing civil war in their native Somalia.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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With Callim Skinner being a sprinter, wouldn't he be coached by Jan van Eijden?
I wonder how the phtographers feel about their work being used in this way.
I wonder how many more of the athletes used will react to their images being used in this way.
I wonder how the IOC will react to the Olympic rings being used in this way.
Nasty, vicious and ignorant bigots, nothing more, nothing less.
Callum was overly polite. Cease and desist may be a move apt phrase. This is probably just the start of anything positive being pinned on Brexit. Well done brexitards.
Well done to Callum Skinner for tweeting about this. It's typical of the Leave campaign, to make a stupid association like this. The vote was two months ago, did the GB athletes only start training after the vote? Or have they been training all their lives? Those stupid bastards are fucking up the country, and for what?
Leave.EU is just a bunch of your common or garden racist bigots, rather than politicians.
It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference these days.
It's perfectly fine to be supportive of the U.K. And Team GB and yet also support the idea of the EU.
IMO it is wrong to suggest that our Olympics success is down to leaving the EU, when we haven't left yet, I mean, the vote was less than 2 months ago! Most of the hard work that got the athletes to Rio happened well before the referendum was even announced!
Could the politicians please step off the bandwagon at the next station...
Trying to associate Olympic sporting success with nationalist politics? Always a classy move. Also another image used in that video was a screenshot of the medal table on the BBC web site, which I thought UKIP reckoned was a biased Euro-lefty organization they'd prefer to see sold, or sold out, to Murdoch.
As Mo's dad was born in Britain he should be able to pass his citizenship on to his children, even if they're born abroad?
Brexiteers; what can you do with them eh............ well actually I have got a whole list of things, none of them suitable for posting
#flagwavingbarstewards
Apparently his dad is British
True, though if Farah were born today, that would not automatically confer British citizenship.
It's such a bizarre thing - an accident of birth giving someone the right to the chance at a better life, outside of a war torn country.
The hereditary principle is blatantly unfair, whether that's appointing a head of state, a member of the upper house, or British citizenship.
And people who argue against that, who argue against allowing a person to live a better life, seem to be more bothered about losing out themselves : empathy vs selfishness.
Wish I could remember where I first heard it, but think this sums it up pretty well.
"When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
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