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Olympians Banned From Blogging
nodwick writes "CNN reports that in a bid to protect its lucrative media contracts, the IOC is barring competitors, coaches, and support personnel from writing firsthand accounts of their Olympic experience, on the web or in print, for the duration of the Games. Nor are they allowed to ever post photographs or movies that they've taken, including media of themselves, even after the Games are finished. They've threatened to disqualify anyone that violates their restrictions and sue them for monetary damages. Looks like an effort to clamp down on grassroots, word-of-mouth publicity for the Olympics -- good thing they're not having any problems selling tickets anyways, eh?"
I'm glad to know you don't know what you're talking about. Please, continue to spread the misinformation and dead-wrong assumptions.
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I will be an olympic athelete, a member of the Jamacian ski team. I will blog, and I will post my personal media. If they disqualify me I'll take them on at their own game. Sure I won't win, I'm not a gold-metal skier, but I'll prove a point. Then I'll found the Nerd Olympics, and if they threatan to sue, I'll say "Its an ancient game, you can't trademark that!" and prove it in court. I tellyahwhat.
The Olympics are merely a drain on every societies finances when there are still more credible needs to be filled. The "games" are politics, not sports, so let us treat them (and the IOC) as such.
If it's all about the money then I say kudos to all the drug cheats.
If the IOC wants to make some fucking rules why not make rules banning professionals from competing? They did that once. It didn't work and they changed that rule ages ago because it sucked.
Nope. Hitler was a Nazi dictator and wanted to prove that his "Arian race" was da best. If you want a valid example, look no further than Moscow 1980. Of course, since it probably wasn't shown on TV in the US, it didn't actually happen. Yeah, didn't happen, that's right. No games in 1980, just 1976 followed with good ol' all-American games in 1984. Oh, did I just say "1984"? Ungood boy!
Anyway, there wasn't any crap like this in Moscow, just extremely friendly Russians welcoming friends from all other the world, a good infrastructure and the soul, the spirit. It may sound crazy, but it appeared the USSR cared more about hosting good games than about getting the most medals (though they obviously did both).
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