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The official Olympic Summer Games 2004 thread (pg. 11)
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| starsearcher |
| Mark Boswell the Canadian high jumper is doing SO well...I'm very excited about him he seems to be doing an excellent job :D:D |
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| loconet |
How ing sickening is this?
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Olympians largely barred from blogging
(AP) -- Athletes may be the center of attention at the Olympic Games, but don't expect to hear directly from them online -- or see snapshots or video they've taken.
The International Olympic Committee is barring competitors, as well as coaches, support personnel and other officials, from writing firsthand accounts for news and other Web sites.
An exception is if an athlete has a personal Web site that they did not set up specifically for the Games.
The IOC's rationale for the restrictions is that athletes and their coaches should not serve as journalists -- and that the interests of broadcast rightsholders and accredited media come first. translated: People who gave us the big coin come first.
Participants in the games may respond to written questions from reporters or participate in online chat sessions -- akin to a face-to-face or telephone interview -- but they may not post journals or online diaries, blogs in Internet parlance, until the Games end August 29.
To protect lucrative broadcast contracts, athletes and other participants are also prohibited from posting any video, audio or still photos they take themselves, even after the games, unless they get permission ahead of time. (Photos taken by accredited journalists are allowed on the personal sites.)
The editor of a Web site that had arranged athlete diaries called the restrictions shortsighted.
"This is unfathomable to me," said Robert Bliwise, editor of Duke Magazine, Duke University's alumni publication. "I don't understand what the International Olympic Committee might be concerned about. It's a way to engage a wide audience with reporting from the field and therefore generate excitement and interest in the games."
His site had made arrangements with two graduates, pole vaulter Jillian Schwartz and race walker Curt Clausen, to provide firsthand accounts for the university's alumni.
"This is a means to personalize the Olympics, to excite a constituency with the thrill that comes with the knowledge that a couple of their own are participants in the competition," Bliwise said.
One entry, from Schwartz, remained posted Thursday; Bliwise said he had yet to be formally informed of any violations.
But an IOC official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said third-party sites like Duke's are covered by the restrictions.
The Olympic guidelines threaten to yank credentials from athletes who are in violation as well as to impose other sanctions or take legal action for any monetary damages.
But the official said the IOC has yet to take any action against an athlete.
The IOC distributed the policies to each country's Olympic committee in February.
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source:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/intern...s.ap/index.html
In a related note, the IOC threatened to sue this university department for having an event called the "Rat Olympics" because they own rights to the word "Olympics".
Source:
http://rats.nebrwesleyan.edu/
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The IOC is an international non-governmental non-profit organisation and the creator of the Olympic Movement. The IOC exists to serve as an umbrella organisation of the Olympic Movement. It owns all rights to the Olympic symbols, flag, motto, anthem and Olympic Games. Its primary responsibility is to supervise the organisation of the summer and winter Olympic Games.
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http://www.olympic.org/uk/organisation/ioc/index_uk.asp
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| starsearcher |
YAY we have nother medal...this time it's once again silver and it came in rowing...It's a bit of a shame though we only got one but I'm sure there's more to come.
Unfortunately the trampoline guy Turgeon failed to qualify to the final :( |
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| smuncky |
ukrainian guy won gold in the trampoline, yuri nikitin
russian guy got silver
i wanan see the quarter finals for the womens beach volleyball :tongue3 |
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| dEsidEL |
heh i watching DW News last nite (German National News network) on CP24 and the media there is upset at their current 27 medals lol ..
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| St_Andrew |
Finally two medals for sweden :D:D
One gold in heptathlon!! karolina kluft, unbeliveble girl :toocool: :crazy:
tomorrow we have chance for another 2 golds, and also J-O Valdner will play semi final in table tennis :toocool: |
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| dEsidEL |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
Finally two medals for sweden :D:D
One gold in heptathlon!! karolina kluft, unbeliveble girl :toocool: :crazy:
tomorrow we have chance for another 2 golds, and also J-O Valdner will play semi final in table tennis :toocool: |
does the media in Sweden feel that their country is underachieving .. ?
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by dEsidEL
does the media in Sweden feel that their country is underachieving .. ?
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If we don't take those two tomorrow, then probably yes =)
but now they are in a hype :toocool:
the goal set by the swedish olympic comite before the olympics was 13 medals tho, so i guess we are actually underarachieving so far... |
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| starsearcher |
| Yeah I was just gonna say to St_Andrew congrads on the Gold medal win by the heptathlon girl...she's really cute actually ;) ;) ;) |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by starsearcher
Yeah I was just gonna say to St_Andrew congrads on the Gold medal win by the heptathlon girl...she's really cute actually ;) ;) ;) |
Thanks man :toocool:
btw, she has a boyfriend :stongue: |
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| starsearcher |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
btw, she has a boyfriend :stongue: |
That's okay we can take care of him hehehe :p
Nah good stuff! |
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| starsearcher |
| WOHOOOO...YES YES YES WE HAVE A FIRST GOLD MEDAL....YIPPY...:D :D :D :D :D |
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