17th
August
2008
Charles J. Brown
06:45 am
06:45 am
Controlympics: Too Much for Even the IOC?
From The Los Angeles Times:
China came under criticism from the International Olympic Committee on Thursday after a British reporter was dragged away by police and detained for 20 minutes while covering a protest. . . . “The IOC does disapprove of any attempts to hinder a journalist who is going about doing his job seemingly within the rules and regulations,” Giselle Davies, a spokeswoman for the committee, said at a news conference Thursday. “This, we hope, has been addressed. We don’t want to see this happening again.”
Emphasis added. Nothing like one little weasel word to ruin what otherwise appeared to be the first signs of the IOC growing a backbone.
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