Olympic Athletes May Be Permitted To Blog From Beijing
Anyone else find this amusing in the extreme? China- the folks who are “strongly discouraging anonymous blogging” - will be the site of next year’s Olympic Games, which will make the first time the IOC has (as far as we suspect will happen soon) approved athlete blogging.
Heh. Irony. Love it.
This hasn’t been approved yet, but according to this article from Keith Austin writing for the Sports section of the Sydney Morning Herald, it’s on the verge of transpiring. Austin has a fascinating recap of athletes and blogging in his piece that’s definitely worth reading, and I won’t repost it here (because I don’t do that sort of thing). But you should definitely check it out for the historical perspective, just to get a sense of how big a deal this is.
How will this play out, I wonder? Will Chinese authorities try to impose their own highly restrictive rules on the athletes, given customary deference to host country law? I dunno. It’s a soap opera that will be interesting to see played out come next summer. I wonder how many athletes will blog, though. If it were me, frankly, I’d be leery of blogging in China, no matter that I was (I guess) technically on international soil.
February 16th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
I did too. unbelivebly the depths that Reggie liked to throw. You wouldn’t dare, cried Chelsea Wells!