18/09/2000 (Agence Europe) - German Social Democrat Lissy Gröner affirmed it would be necessary to penalise, by going as far as to exclude them from the Games, the countries such as Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates, which go to the Olympic Games in Sydney with men-only teams. The president of the International Olympics Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, should speak personally, she said, considering that the Committee will lose its credibility if it does not give concrete substance to its action plan for the promotion of women's rights, adopted at the World Conference on Women in Sport, in March.