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Sharing sporting moments at the 2016 Olympics as animated GIFs has been outlawed by the International Olympics Committee. The ban really only applies to the media, before you panic. However, we suspect that if the IOC had its way, we'd all be forbidden from tweeting or Vining animated GIFs and WebMs from the Rio games. After …
The Olympics is about corporate-sponsorship, the elite, politicians, the super-rich etc. It just saddles cities with decades of debt and the poor never see any real benefits. So hey, lets Teargas them! Example: Golf and Pro-Golfers, what's that all about... Wasn't the Olympics supposed to be for amateurs anyway.... Imho the Summer X-Games feels more like an Olympics for the everyman...
I'm a great fan of most of the Olympics and was a GamesMaker at London2012. It was one of the best experiences of my life. But I do find some of the IOC's petty rules takes a bit of a shine off of it. On Sunday there was a Radio4 discussion on the Olympics and one commentator said that sports should only be included if the Olympics was the pinnacle of that sport. e.g. No Golf, Tennis or Football this makes sense to me. The purists idea that competitors should all be amateur is never going to happen and rarely happened in the past anyway. #Rio2016 Go #TeamGB