baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
My colleague at work said she watched the bit where all the athletes parade around, and that's pretty much verbatim. Sheer class
Olympic Bullshit
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IdleRich
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One thing I don't understand is how the interface works between the sponsorship and the actual athletes. Let's say I am a very good runner (unlikely I know) and I qualify through my national association for the Olympics, then I'm told that I'm not allowed to display any of the stuff that isn't officially approved when I'm competing or warming up or anything really. Why not? Where did I sign up to agreeing to promote the companies involved? Was there some small print that I didn't read when I joined my national federation? If not then how can they enforce it? If I turned up drinking a Pepsi then would there be sporting repercussions (maybe a ban from competing)? How did being outstanding in my field lead to my unwitting agreement to advertise certain companies and not advertise others?
I appreciate that these are not questions that most athletes are likely to ask or protest about; they get given some free stuff and then they run (swim or jump) in it but it seems a reasonable question to me. How does achievement lead inexorably to this point? Was there somewhere they could have opted out?
I appreciate that these are not questions that most athletes are likely to ask or protest about; they get given some free stuff and then they run (swim or jump) in it but it seems a reasonable question to me. How does achievement lead inexorably to this point? Was there somewhere they could have opted out?
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
About the Ryan Giggs/Craig Bellamy anthem refusal, before I forget:
'Football fans and patriots turned to Twitter to express their outrage with people branding the anthem dissenters as "small-minded little nationalists", "idiots" and "un-British".'
Not sure about the sponsorship - would be interesting to see how national federations would try to enforce it if someone turned up in a Nike kit (maybe they do? haven't watched enough to know). Waiting for Usain Bolt to arrive at trackside with a KFC. Please let it happen.
'Football fans and patriots turned to Twitter to express their outrage with people branding the anthem dissenters as "small-minded little nationalists", "idiots" and "un-British".'
Not sure about the sponsorship - would be interesting to see how national federations would try to enforce it if someone turned up in a Nike kit (maybe they do? haven't watched enough to know). Waiting for Usain Bolt to arrive at trackside with a KFC. Please let it happen.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Olympic_Athletes_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics
more prosaic than it might have been
more prosaic than it might have been
I was a volunteer and on the ground this wasn't true. In terms of screen time maybe, but it never occurred to me when I saw the footage.
Ransbeeck
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baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
hucks
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In all fairness, maybe that's why you don't understand it.
As far as it was possible for something like that to be good, it was pretty good.
Leo
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cool...i'd read that some businesses were thinking of letting their people work from home, maybe that's part of it.
crackerjack
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Well you do sign up when you join your national team. And it's there in the contract.
Presumably any company thinking of sponsoring an athlete already knows the deal. The Olympics is the IOC's baby and they can take it away from anyone who won't play by their rules.
Athletes are allowed rival sponsorship on their essential kit - for a runner, say, that's shoes – but not their clothes.
But anyway, this is an interesting piece outlining the dispute over exactly where the line is drawn.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ol...r-BOA-take-tough-stance-over-sponsorship.html
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baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
fair nuff. aside from the particulars of the ceremony itself, the crowing nationalism around it and the regurgitation of press releases in the papers masquerading as reporting was too much to bear.
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baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
surely only (some) americans haven't heard of the uk? (which i can't blame them for - must be difficult to remember the names of all 51 states etc etc)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/30/ye-shiwen-world-record-olympics-2012 Apparently the American swimming director (or whatever) is going off on one about a Chinese swimmer being a certainty for doping. Very funny. You train for years to the exclusion of everything and then get beaten by a 16-year-old who's smacked up to their eyeballs (it does seem that the improvement curve of the swimmer concerned defies any other explanation, like Florence Griffith-Joyner back in the day). The futility of life and top-level sport, eh...
Maybe they should hold all the medal ceremonies in 2020. Just to be sure.
Never knew before that Carl Lewis had insinuated Usain Bolt was doped up after the 9.69 world record.
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mistersloane
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this was why michael jordan had a flag draped over his shoulder during the gold medal ceremony in 1992, to hide the reebok logo on his team warm up suit...
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simon silverdollar
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Yeah LOVED the bit where it was 1000s of people raving to soul II soul.
So glad he chose to celebrate that side of the uk