... and the story continues. Andean nations, including Bolivia, consider the FIFA decision unacceptable, and try to lobby the FIFA to cancel this decision.
Our president played a football match at an altitude of 6000 meters, to show that this is possible, and not harmful for health.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6747153.stm>Recently there is an outcry in some Andean countries, over a decision by the FIFA, banning international football matches at altitudes above 2500 Meters. In Bolivia, for example, that would exclude La Paz (ca. 3700 meters), as well as Cochabamba, and Bolivia's capital, Sucre.
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Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
