Having made it clear that this will be an Olimpbiz-free site for the next two weeks you can imagine my ire when - on tuning in the trusty old iPod Touch to BBC Radio 4 - I discover this smug phrase being repeated again & again & again:
"Due to rights restrictions this part of the programme is unavailable. Due to rights restrictions this part of the programme is unavailable. Due to rights restrictions this part of the programme is unavailable. Due to rights restrictions this part of the programme is unavailable. Due to rights restrictions this part of the programme is unavailable. Due to rights restrictions this part of the programme is unavailable. ..." (you get the idea).
A quick Google for: bbc radio 4 blocked ... and, surprise, surprise, you guessed it! the BBC has blocked access to BBC Radio 4 for the duration of The Games (yes, I really share the sense of fun implied by the phrase). An ex-Radio 4 controller out on holiday in Italy (where else?) is also lamenting this craven submission to IOC force majeur.
Now I thought this kind of media obstruction (a form of censorship?) was only employed in those kinds of benighted countries We in the Free World despised. Cut to an earlier slogan: Keep Politics Out of Sport.
Yeah, right.
IOC? or IOU?
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