It amuses me that the Olympics people have tried to circumvent how the internet works with their archaic policies. It amuses me even more that they’ve got network TV to consent to not broadcast news of the games live so that local stations can cover it in their own time. This basically means that the US doesn’t get to see the games as they happen, but as the network deems them ready.
So, in case you hadn’t noticed, the US women’s gymnastics team took the silver medal, while Romania took the gold, and Russia took the bronze. Indeed, you can’t even get this news on the official web site (it was down when I last tried, but it’s here now, and foreign news sites are prohibited from serving that information to anyone with an American IP address.
I don’t really have these restrictions.
(By the way, there are currently more people linking to the page that I linked to above than there are people linking to the page that the Olympic committee wants them to.)
