27 September 2016

Rules To Adhere To When Updating Athletic Blog Posts

By Douglas Butler


During the early days, athletes were not supposed to update their Olympic blog posts. This is because the committee was afraid to release the live updates. Therefore ones who do this were penalized since they had gone over the rules and break them to post the proceedings in the field. This was not possible till Olympics which were held in Beijing china in 2008. This was because the Olympic committee was afraid of athletes releasing sensitive information about the task to the public hence the ones did this were penalized. Therefore athletic blog was supposed to be kept private.

However not all the information you get in the field must be posted on your blog. Therefore there were rules set for you in order to guide on the right ones to post and the ones which you are not supposed to post. The information on discussions on the event between the athlete and the sponsor was supposed to be confidential hence no one even the athlete is allowed to give it our under any channel.

The other thing you must adhere to is the pictures in which you post in the internet. These pictures are supposed to me still ones which are taken from the place you are watching the competitions. Therefore if you post a video event going on, you will be held accountable for your mistake and penalized for the act.

Blog posts should adhere to every rule and make sure the spirit of athletics is respected at all times. In this case, the international committee of Olympics has the right to demand the person who posted something outside their rules on their websites to remove them in case they did not agree to the posting of such material to the internet.

Respecting the rules is expected at all times to ensure a smooth operation and piece throughout the Olympics session. However, the IOC will demand for the person responsible for discussing their content to remove them and in cases there will be penalties for athlete who has done that. In this case you are supposed to adhere to every rule set to continue participating in Olympics.

If the information was out during performance in the previous part you participated, the people will start commenting where others will be [positive while others negative about the performance. This will affect the next performance since the discouragements from the web is too much for the athlete. Therefore there is some information which is supposed to remain confidential in protection of the people participating.

In cases where the athletes have agreements with their sponsors, you are not supposed to make those comments in your blog or refer to any substantial materials which talks about the agreement whether directly or indirectly. All these limitations are set only for bloggers to allow the committee of having their commissioned broadcasting contractors to do so.

Today anyone can take any kind of material and post them on their blogs without anyone being concerned about them. The committee also did this to allow the broadcasters who had made proper arrangements with the IOC to cover the stories and air them.




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