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Sochi Organizing Committee Sues Official Lottery Company Over Unpaid Licensing Fees06 / 20 / 13The organizational committee of Sochi 2014 is suing the Olympics’ official lottery company Sportloto for failure to make license payments for the use of Olympic logos. The committee has filed a lawsuit with a Moscow arbitration court, claiming that Sportloto failed to make applicable license p... |
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Games Chiefs Hit Back At Cynics
Olympics organizers responded to cynics Sunday after weeks of negative headlines, saying that "criticism over planning mistakes and costs were being outweighed by a surge in public excitement" as the start of the Olympics nears, according to Mohammed Abbas of REUTERS. Britain's "famously caustic med ...
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U.K. Marketing Goes Into Overdrive
The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are the "catalyst for a foreign invasion by the worlds of business, politics, finance and the arts which, it is hoped, will showcase the very best of U.K. plc and attract investment for decades to come," according to Chorley & Dugan of the London INDEPENDENT ...
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London Mayor Warns Of Brand Insanity
London Mayor Boris Johnson warned of the "insanity" of overzealous policing of Olympic brands, according to Roger Blitz of the FINANCIAL TIMES. This comes as organizers "step up efforts" to banish the unauthorized use of words and images associated with the Games. Johnson called for the light-touch ...
Bolt Is Track & Field's Top Draw
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt “remains track’s most thrilling performer and its economic engine,” according to Tim Layden of SI. U.S. shot putter Adam Nelson said, “Without Bolt, I suppose we have no sport.” Layden writes the 100m and 200m races at the London Games &ldqu ...
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Olympic Medals Most Expensive Ever
The Olympic medals for this summer's London Games will be "the most expensive in history," according to LEFIGARO.fr. Mining Corporation Rio-Tinto needed to extract eight tons of gold, silver and copper from Mongolia and Utah to make the 4,700 medals for these Games. With the increasing price of gold ...
Analysts: G4S Will Continue To Thrive
In the minds of the public, politicians and media, the world's biggest security company G4S is "fatally damaged after completely mangling its eight-week contract to provide security for the London Olympics," according to Simon Neville of the London GUARDIAN. However, analysts who have followed G4S f ...
Union Leader Accuses Ministers Over Strike
The union leader behind a planned 24-hour strike involving Heathrow immigration workers the day before the Olympic Games "has insisted the stoppage can be averted and accused ministers of whipping up hysteria about disruption ahead of the event," according to Brian Groom of the FINANCIAL TIMES. Publ ...
Olympics Notes
Andy Murray and the rest of Great Britain’s tennis players are "determined to soak up the Olympic team spirit" generated at London 2012, but will have to do most of it "at a distance." Geography dictates none of the British tennis team will be staying in the Olympic Village during competition. ...
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What To Expect At The Ceremony
Director Danny Boyle and his team "have gone to extraordinary lengths" to keep the content of Friday's opening ceremony secret, according to Sawer & Duffin of the London TELEGRAPH. Volunteer performers each signed pledges that they "would not reveal details to outsiders, and professional technic ...
LOCOG Won't Ban Non-Sponsor Apparel
LOCOG officials said that London Games ticket-holders “will be 'free to wear the clothing of their choice' inside Games venues,” according to Shiv Malik of the GUARDIAN. LOCOG Chair Sebastian Coe previously had said that people "wearing advertising logos of non-Olympic sponsors woul ...
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