Category: Organization
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The London 2012 marketing moratorium begins
A period nicknamed “the blackout” started today in which athletes competing in the games may not appear in any advertising by companies that are not official Olympic sponsors. To understand what this means, consider Michael Phelps: Subway has long sponsored the Olympic swimmer, but it’s not an Olympic sponsor. That means no Subway ads featuring…
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Early London 2012 arrivers treated with a 4-hour Tour of the City
Interesting story off The Telegraph, via GoSwim on Twitter Competitors from Australia and the United States were on buses that took almost four hours to get from Heathrow Airport to the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, despite being able to use a newly-opened Games lane on the M4. It should take less than an…
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USA Swimming and Disney-Pixar say “Just Keep Swimming”
To get more involved in swimming visit swimtoday.org (Btw, spot the Brit)
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Britain’s biggest warship the HMS Ocean now guards London
The Royal Navy’s largest warship, the carrier and assault ship HMS Ocean, has returned to London to provide helicopter support and sniper teams for the duration of the Olympics. RAF Typhoon fast jets and RAF Puma helicopters with snipers armed with hi-tech rifles will be among the military aircraft patrolling the restricted zone, air security…
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London is now officially a militarized no-fly zone
The Aviationist reports that as of this weekend, the usual civilian control of London’s skies is (temporarily) over, and the Royal Air Force is in charge. A new task force called “Atlas Control” will monitor London’s airspace in the weeks leading up to and during the Olympics, with most traffic over the city banned or…
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Brenton Rickard’s mother threatened by Swimming Australia
The mother of an Australian Olympian is being threatened with legal action by Swimming Australia after lobbying too hard for swimmers with disabilities. Also, Melanie Schlanger’s parents are angered that they are not sure whether they will get to see their daughter swim in the finals, having applied for ticket in the public ballot but…
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Danish swim chief to become club director after Olympics
Danish national team director Lars Sørensen announced early 2011 that he would stop after the London 2012 Olympics, and now it has been announced that he will start as club director of Hovedstadens Svømmeklub (the Capitol’s Swim Club), a merger of GI40Hermes and Svømmeklubben København into Denmark’s biggest sports club. In other Danish swimming news,…
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London Olympic committee says link only if you’re nice
Another LOCOG internet policing criticism this time on boingboing, pointing to this chapter in the Terms of Use for the London 2012 website: “a. Links to the Site. You may create your own link to the Site, provided that your link is in a text-only format. You may not use any link to the Site…
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Lawmakers want ‘made in China’ U.S. Olympic uniforms burned
Nice one via ABC News, the U.S. Olympic committee now promise American made uniforms by 2014. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player