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London welcomes Voldesport
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 02:48 pmIt is becoming increasingly difficult to remain positive about the “Event That Shall Not Be Named”, or as we are now calling it for short, Voldesport.
To be fair, I remain reasonably positive about the actual sporting side of it all; it’s just the enormous mess that is the overall organisation that gets to me. From the bizarre pedantry of the corporate sponsorship rules that mean that you can’t ride a Boris Bike through the Olympic Park, because they are sponsored by Barclays and the games are not, to the overly literal interpretation of the guidelines that had police officers emptying their snacks into clear plastic bags to ensure that no unauthorised logos appeared in the area – and it’s okay for LOCOG to say that they didn’t mean this to happen and that they have no desire to dictate what people can or cannot take into the areas and Olympic Park, because that is patently untrue: they had legislation passed specifically to allow them to do just that.
We are not even allowed to link to the official site if we are being critical. Because I am by nature a cowardly custard, I illustrate this with a link to a link, just in case: http://boingboing.net/2012/07/13/london-olympic-committee-says.html .
In the meantime, the annoyances simply pile up, as reviewed here in an article entitled “Welcome to the Metashambles”
Still, never mind, it’s YOUR OlympicsTM, which are being covered by the Brand Police who, suspiciously, are fully staffed, even if the security arrangements are all shot to Hell and back
What pees me off about all this most is the fact that the world is watching, pointing the finger and having a good belly laugh at our expense.
Oh, bugger. I called it the Olympics and was rude. No, I meant Voldesport. Don’t arrest me!
To be fair, I remain reasonably positive about the actual sporting side of it all; it’s just the enormous mess that is the overall organisation that gets to me. From the bizarre pedantry of the corporate sponsorship rules that mean that you can’t ride a Boris Bike through the Olympic Park, because they are sponsored by Barclays and the games are not, to the overly literal interpretation of the guidelines that had police officers emptying their snacks into clear plastic bags to ensure that no unauthorised logos appeared in the area – and it’s okay for LOCOG to say that they didn’t mean this to happen and that they have no desire to dictate what people can or cannot take into the areas and Olympic Park, because that is patently untrue: they had legislation passed specifically to allow them to do just that.
We are not even allowed to link to the official site if we are being critical. Because I am by nature a cowardly custard, I illustrate this with a link to a link, just in case: http://boingboing.net/2012/07/13/london-olympic-committee-says.html .
In the meantime, the annoyances simply pile up, as reviewed here in an article entitled “Welcome to the Metashambles”
Still, never mind, it’s YOUR OlympicsTM, which are being covered by the Brand Police who, suspiciously, are fully staffed, even if the security arrangements are all shot to Hell and back
What pees me off about all this most is the fact that the world is watching, pointing the finger and having a good belly laugh at our expense.
Oh, bugger. I called it the Olympics and was rude. No, I meant Voldesport. Don’t arrest me!