2011
21
Mar
Organisers of the London 2012 Olympics, on the pretext of “security”, are considering banning spectators from bringing mobile phones and picnics to Olympics events.Flasks, thermoses and larger quantities of food will all be banned.Liquids of more than …
2010
11
Jan
Baroness Valentine, CEO of London First, has put the boot into Locog by referring to them as “stormtroopers” wrt the zealousness with which they protect the Olympic brand and its associated names eg “2012″, “London” etc.Baroness Valentine says that sma…
2009
28
Sep
There seems to be something of a problem brewing with the O2 Arena (no longer called the Millennium Dome because of it’s association with white elephants).AEG, the owner of the O2 arena, has had to remove the O2 branding from the building for the durat…
2009
28
Apr
Cabe, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (the government’s architectural adviser), has vented its spleen on the £355M Olympic media centre (where the journalists covering the London 2012 Olympic Games will sit).Cabe describes th…
2009
16
Jan
Doya doya is a dynamic event on the final day of Shushoe. Young men wearing headbands and clad in loincloth struggle for possession of Go Hoin, a cow god amulet. With their brave shouts of doya doya, so-called strength water poured on them evaporates quickly from their bodies due to heat and energy.
2008
29
Nov
taly’s triumphant Olympic fencers are using their fighting skills to stay in the limelight and promote their sport now that interest has waned after the Beijing Games.
The fencing team drew wide attention after it brought home two individual gold, two individual bronze and three team bronze medals.
The swashbucklers have used media appearances at home [...]
2008
28
Oct
Rupert Murdoch’s media group scored another Olympic coup Friday when it was awarded the Turkish broadcast rights to the 2014 and 2016 games.
The International Olympic Committee announced the deal with Fox Turkey, part of the Fox entertainment network owned by Murdoch.
It is the IOC’s third Olympic deal with a Murdoch channel in Europe this [...]
2008
5
Oct
Interest in the Beijing Summer Olympics and the start of the football season drove a 26-per-cent boost in August traffic on U.S. sports websites viewed at work, a unit of Nielsen Co. said Thursday.
The number of unique visitors accessing sports websites from their office locations grew to 42.3 million in August, up from 33.4 [...]
2008
2
Oct
Interest in the Beijing Summer Olympics and the start of the football season drove a 26 percent boost in August traffic on U.S. sports websites viewed at work, a unit of Nielsen Co said on Thursday.
The number of unique visitors accessing sports websites from their office locations grew to 42.3 million in August, up [...]
2008
22
Sep
The Guardian warns that the rules governing the use of words in advertising associated with the Olympics are draconian.Quote:”Under the 2006 London Olympic Games and Paralympics Games Act, normally innocuous words such as ‘Game’, ‘Medals’, ‘Gold’, ‘201…