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08-14-2004 09:48 PM |
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Originally posted by CASIGKAP
New York - I don't think they'll get them b/c the IOC is still pissed at us for bringing the Trade Center flag into the last games here in Salt Lake City. Besides, the U.S. has held the games many times in the last 20 years alone. Think L.A., Atlanta, Salt Lake City, etc.
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More to it than that... IOC has been pissed at the US of A since Atlanta in 1996. Primarily because the ACOG (Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games) was lax in enforcing Olympic trademarks. There was way too much commercialism going on, especially with street vendors hawking unauthorized merchandise with the Olympic logos. Pissed off then-IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch - you could tell because he was less than his usual effusive self during the closing ceremonies.
Since then, the IOC has seriously tightened merchandise licensing procedures. Below is a good explanation on the laws protecting the use of Olympic emblems:
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The Olympic symbol, often thought of as available for general use, is protected under Section 110 of the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, 36 U.S.C. §220506, protecting various designations associated with the Olympics. Under 36 U.S.C. §220506(a), the United States Olympic Committee has the exclusive right to use the name “United States Olympic Committee,” its symbol and emblem, and the words “Olympic,” “Olympiad,” “Citius Altius Fortius,” “Pan American,” “Paralympiad,” “America Espirito Sport Fraternite,” or any combination thereof. Olympic is particularly troubling because it has a general or generic usage and its restriction touches upon free speech. Nevertheless. the United States Supreme Court has held that the grant by Congress to the United States Olympic Committee of the exclusive right to use the word “Olympic” does not violate the First Amendment, and 36 U.S.C. §220506(c), would make any person Olympic or any simulation of the words “Olympic,” “Olympiad” or “Citius Altius Fortius” liable. For example, “Gay Olympic Games,” would be proscribed.
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Source: http://www.gulfcoastlaw.com/Rosen/Jun03.html
That's why you see in many commercials by Olympic sponsors (McDonald's, etc.) "36 USC 220506", acknowledging the ownership of the Olympic trademarks via the US Olympic Committee.
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Moscow
Toronto
Sao Paulo
Rio DeJaneiro
Leipzic
Havana
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Moscow - Hosted it in 1980, dunno if their economy is stable enough to host another one, or to rebuild or construct new venues.
Toronto - Longshot.
Sao Paulo and Rio - Longshot. Outside of the main streets is crippling poverty and rampant crime.
Leipzig - Longshot. Still recovering from 40 years of communism.
Havana - Has already hosted the Pan American Games; however the Cuban exile community in Miami is a very powerful voice to be reckoned with... I wouldn't be surprised if they call for a boycott of the U.S. team if Havana ever gets an Olympics while Fidel is in power. |
