International Olympic Committee News

[heywoodu 15,354]

  On 4/17/2019 at 12:15 AM, Vojthas said:

Historical moment for the Olympic Movement.

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This confuses me so much. On one hand, changing the distribution to condoms made of a more environment-friendly material is of course good. On the other hand, using the term 'single-use condoms' is frightening. Does he mean they're now gonna hand out condoms you're supposed to wash out or something and use again? The fuck. Literally.

[Gianlu33 4,750]

BREAKING: Marisol Casado, Morinari Watanabe and Ingmar De Vos have been elected to the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations' (ASOIF) Council here today.

 

NB: Credits to InsideTheGames

[heywoodu 15,354]

Ah, "here today", insidethegames' way of saying "look at us, we are awesome because we are at this location".

[hukbrazil 18]

  On 5/7/2019 at 6:55 AM, heywoodu said:

Ah, "here today", insidethegames' way of saying "look at us, we are awesome because we are at this location".

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Hahaha 

 

Although the comic emphasis, these face-to-face coverage are journalistically important. So I think at this point, they're awesome 

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[heywoodu 15,354]

  On 5/7/2019 at 12:04 PM, hukbrazil said:

Hahaha 

 

Although the comic emphasis, these face-to-face coverage is journalistically important. So I think at this point, they're awesome 

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I think they are too, but they literally always rub it in everyone's face. Every single time they are on location, they (or one or two specific editors) somehow forcefully mention they are there. Usually without even mentioning where it is (that's just in some tiny line somewhere), the emphasis has to be on "we are here!!". I know it's just a detail, but it's been annoying me ever since they started with it (they haven't always done so) 

[dcro 10,210]

Since when is ITG awesome?

[heywoodu 15,354]

  On 5/7/2019 at 12:24 PM, dcro said:

Since when is ITG awesome?

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Since they sometimes have some interesting obscure news nobody else has (ok, because pretty much nobody cares but still).

[Griff88 1,971]

  On 5/7/2019 at 12:33 PM, heywoodu said:

Since they sometimes have some interesting obscure news nobody else has (ok, because pretty much nobody cares but still).

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Yes, for example it made realize that Chinese Taipei is quite good in korfball

 

[dcro 10,210]

  On 5/7/2019 at 12:33 PM, heywoodu said:

Since they sometimes have some interesting obscure news nobody else has (ok, because pretty much nobody cares but still).

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Still, such articles are often quite short and/or poorly written.

 

I would definitely not describe them as awesome. For one thing their interface is quite bad.

[heywoodu 15,354]

  On 5/7/2019 at 2:18 PM, Griff88 said:

Yes, for example it made realize that Chinese Taipei is quite good in korfball

 

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One of the few things I knew about korfball

 

(That plus NED and BEL rule the world, with BEL of course as near-eternal second, and without korfball I'd never have existed )