Olympic Comittee Allows Athlete Blogs. Will China?
The Olympic Charter says Olympic athletes are not allowed to do “journalism,” and in previous games this included blogs. New rules, however, allow blogging, as long as athletes don’t publish interviews or images from “Olympic areas.” Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said as recently as yesterday that “athletes have the right to freely express themselves…. [and] criticise China… in China in a public place.” We’ll see how the Chinese Communist Party feels about that in the weeks ahead. Meanwhile, it’s on! Who will publish the BEST OLYMPIC BLOG?
Original post by Mike
