{"id":14045,"date":"2010-02-18T09:14:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T17:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14045"},"modified":"2010-02-18T09:21:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T17:21:05","slug":"iocs-rule-41-cuts-up-the-team-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14045","title":{"rendered":"IOC&#8217;s Rule 41 Cuts Up The Team Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/lago_hole.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/lago_hole.jpg','popup','width=449,height=307,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/lago_hole-tm.jpg\" height=\"136\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Lago Hole\" \/><\/a>In a post on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angrysnowboarder.com\/?p=5910\" target=\"_blank\">AngrySnowboarder.com<\/a><\/strong> (pointed out to us by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southofthenorth.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SouthoftheNorth&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><strong> Jonny Burns<\/strong>) the Angry One discovered that all the snowboarders who are currently appearing in the 2010 Olympics have had their names and likenesses removed from the team pages of their sponsor&#8217;s websites.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out this is the result of a small by-law of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.usoc.org\/assets\/documents\/attached_file\/filename\/1037\/Olympic_Charter_Rule_41.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">IOC&#8217;s rule 41<\/a><\/strong> (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/news\/story?id=4921916\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned yesterday in a story on ESPN<\/a><\/strong>). It reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Except as permitted by the IOC Executive Board, no competitor, coach, trainer or official who participates in the Olympic Games may allow his person, name, picture or sports performances to be used for advertising purposes during the Olympic Games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess that explains the <strong>Scott Lago<\/strong> hole in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flow.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=293&amp;Itemid=87\" target=\"_blank\">Flow website<\/a><\/strong> (above right) as well as <strong>Louie Vito<\/strong> missing on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaticsnowboards.com\/wordpress\/team.html\" target=\"_blank\">Omatic<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Shaun White, Kelly Clark, Hannah Teter<\/strong> et. al. missing from the on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burton.com\/on\/demandware.store\/Sites-Burton_US-Site\/default\/Team-Start\" target=\"_blank\">Burton site<\/a><\/strong>, etc. etc. etc. . . Now, if you&#8217;re an official Olympic sponsor, then it&#8217;s a completely different game. Another not-so-subtle reminder that the Olympics really are all about the money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Links: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angrysnowboarder.com\/?p=5910\" target=\"_blank\">AngrySnowboarder<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southofthenorth.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SouthofTheNorth<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/news\/story?id=4921916\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a post on AngrySnowboarder.com (pointed out to us by SouthoftheNorth&#8217;s Jonny Burns) the Angry One discovered that all the snowboarders who are currently appearing in the 2010 Olympics have had their names and likenesses removed from the team pages of their sponsor&#8217;s websites. Turns out this is the result of a small by-law of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14045"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14045"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14051,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14045\/revisions\/14051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}