CYBERSPORTS KEEP YOUR NET OPINIONS TO YOURSELF, OK?Byline: Tom Hoffarth Don't bother going into the chat room on NBC's official Olympic Web site (www.nbcolympics.com) to complain about the network's tape-delayed coverage. You probably won't be heard anymore. Viewers' criticisms that were posted following the opening ceremonies disappeared the next day, and subsequent comments have been taken off so that ``people can respond to other issues instead,'' Alan Wurtzel, NBC's president of research, told USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. . --The IOC's Internet police have been checking on more than 4,000 sites for illegal use of video. They've already picked on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation “Radio-Canada” redirects here. For the French language TV arm of the CBC, see Télévision de Radio-Canada. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. , which had been airing a simulcast of its TV audio on its Web site (www.cbc.ca/olympics) until Thursday, when it was told to stop. --Barbie collectors have the best chance of going gaga ga·ga adj. Informal 1. Silly; crazy. 2. Completely absorbed, infatuated, or excited: They were gaga over the rock group's new album. 3. Senile; doddering. at the official Web store for the Games (usolympicstore.com), as an Olympic Athlete Barbie is available in 10 different countries for $16.99 each. There's also two versions of a $39.99 Olympic Pin Collector Barbie - Caucasian and African-American. --IBM reports that more than 240,000 messages have been sent to athletes through the Surf Shack (www.fanmail.olympic.ibm.com) set up in the Olympic Village Frequently, an Olympic Village is built within an Olympic Park or elsewhere in a host city. Olympic Villages are built to house all participating athletes, as well as officials, trainers, etc. The idea of the Olympic Village comes from Pierre de Coubertin. . After Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe Ian James Thorpe OAM (born 13 October 1982 in Sydney, New South Wales), also known as the Thorpedo or Thorpey, is a former Australian freestyle swimmer. , the most messages have been sent recently to Italian taekwondo athlete Claudio Nolano, which follows his appearance on NBC's ``Today Show.'' --Olympic equestrian enthusiasts have saddled up to a site appropriately named www.clipclop.com, which has been a source for information because of its on-site coverage during the Games. --Lance Armstrong, the two-time Tour de France Tour de France World's most prestigious and difficult bicycle race. Staged for three weeks each July—usually in some 20 daylong stages—the Tour typically comprises 20 professional teams of nine riders each and covers some 3,600 km (2,235 miles) of flat and champ who's in Sydney for Olympic cycling, has an Internet chat Wednesday (2-3 p.m.) accessible through MSNBC.com as well as his home site (www.cycleofhope.com). |
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