Political Olympics: round 2

Jonathan Agnew's umbrella confiscated by Olympic brand police

David Cheeseman, a cameraman working for the BBC at Lords yesterday [30 July], also tweeted that a "LOCOG brand protection lady" had stuck black tape over the names "Canon", "Sony" and "Satchler" on his equipment because they were not official sponsors. 

Yesterday:

German rower sent home because her lover is in an un-PC [but not illegal] far right group

Chinks in the armour

Zambian miners kill Chinese manager during pay protest, reports the BBC.

China's strategy in Africa has been subtle: exploit the African's mistrust of their former colonial masters in Europe by presenting them with an unmilitarised alternative form of developing the continent whilst extracting key resources for the motherland and sending Chinese managers to factories and mines to ensure that the model runs smoothly.

Not so smoothly, it turns out.

Nevertheless, China is playing the long game, suffering short-term losses absorbed within its huge capacity as it buys up operations left fallow by Western firms who focus unreasonable quantities of effort on unreasonably short-term strategies of portfolio optimisation.

Watch this space: resource control was, is and ever will be the only purpose of geopolitics.

Political Olympics: twitter antics

Bad tweet saw Greek OC drop athelete...

Despite her apology, pressure continued to mount for Papahristou to be removed from the Greek Olympic team

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‘It’s the same as violating fair play,’ [head of Greece’s Olympic mission] told a Greek television station.

How, when it had nothing whatsoever to do with the sport with which she is involved, or any sport for that matter?

 ...another bad tweet sees Swiss athlete sent home

In a statement, Gian Gilli, the head of the Swiss Olympic delegation, said that Morganella, 23, had “said something insulting and discriminatory” about the South Korean soccer team. 
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In a separate statement, Morganella said that he had “made a huge mistake” by sending the Twitter message after the game and that he was “truly sorry for the people in South Korea, for footballers, but also for the Swiss delegation and the Swiss football in general.”  


MP in the shit with the PM for complaining about the opening ceremony


The worst:

Hunt for Tom Daley Twitter troll: seaside police raid nets suspect, 17

A 17 year old boy tweets that an athelete has let down his father. I feel for the athlete (his dad died last year), but should this really be an arrestable offence? The worst thing is, people actually felt the need to report the comments to the police.