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]]> By: Rebecca Caroe http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/2010/02/olympic-blogging-policies-for-the-2010-winter-games/comment-page-1/#comment-776058 Rebecca Caroe Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:18:11 +0000 http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/?p=3421#comment-776058 Dave You are spot on the money here. It's not just the IOC that has 'issues' with blogging. I run Rowperfect UK, and we signed up some athletes to blog for us and got one of their blogs streamed onto the UK Guardian newspaper's website. THe UK Rowing organisation (British Rowing) refused to allow one athlete's work to be published alongside any advertising on the newspaper site. The Guardian were charming and re-wrote the code around his words to exclude any advertising so as not to compromise the British Rowing team's sponsorship agreements. As a Brit, I am hoping London will turn out to be a fabulous, inclusive and fully web-enabled games. But my cynical mind says that there are forces at work..... I used to know the IOC media relations lady... but she has left, sadly so I don't have any contacts in Lausanne who might be able to help. Rebecca Dave
You are spot on the money here. It’s not just the IOC that has ‘issues’ with blogging. I run Rowperfect UK, and we signed up some athletes to blog for us and got one of their blogs streamed onto the UK Guardian newspaper’s website.
THe UK Rowing organisation (British Rowing) refused to allow one athlete’s work to be published alongside any advertising on the newspaper site. The Guardian were charming and re-wrote the code around his words to exclude any advertising so as not to compromise the British Rowing team’s sponsorship agreements.

As a Brit, I am hoping London will turn out to be a fabulous, inclusive and fully web-enabled games.

But my cynical mind says that there are forces at work…..

I used to know the IOC media relations lady… but she has left, sadly so I don’t have any contacts in Lausanne who might be able to help.

Rebecca

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