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Russia's Not a Safe Country to Host the Olympics: Debate
Ermeena Fayyaz; Matthew Potgieter; Dewmi Herath.

1st Speaker – Ermeena Fayyaz
Brief Introduction:
Ladies and Gentlemen it is my honour to welcome you to our debate “that Russia is not a safe country to host the Olympics” and being the opposition team we strongly disagree with this statement. We believe the Russia is a safe country to host the Olympics.
The key word being safe. By safe we mean that Russia is a well-protected country to host the Olympics.

Team line:
Our team line is ‘Trust the facts, not the Hype’

What each speaker will discuss:
We would start out debate by talking about the Security of Russia for the Olympics. After that that our second speaker, Dewmi would talk about the process of determining the next location for the next Olympics as well as the media hype and finally our third speaker, Matthew would conclude our debate.

Notes for rebuttal:
Football game in Russia (FIFA World Cup in 2018)
Gay rights
First Half of the Case:
SECURITY
1. In order to ensure that the Winter Olympics held in Russia are safe the Russian government have drafted 37,000 police and security officers to handle the security in Sochi, which is way more than the security drafted for the Summer Olympics which were held in London in 2012. The Olympics, which were held in London, only had 10 thousand police men, where as Russia has 37000, police men.
2. Not only this but also that according to an article in the National Geographic Magazine written my Cathy Newman stated ‘things go missing. We drop a glove, lose a watch misplace glasses. Sometimes they reappear, are appointed by others or stay lost. East London is like that”. By this quote we can tell that even though East London was not a safe country to host the Olympics they are still held there.
3. If something didn’t happen in the Summer Olympics held London with only 10


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