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Iran threatens to boycott London 2012 Olympics over "racist" logo
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[quote:SHR:MV8xMzc1ODA3XzIyNjg3MDcwXzc4N0FBM0Q2] [quote:Dana Scully] when the logo was first revealed to the public, some of the press likened it to Lisa Simpson performing a certain act. the design cost UK taxpayers £400,000 ! there is info here on the reasons why it was picked http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/olympics_2012/6718243.stm despite what the UK government put's out, many many people don't want the Olympics mainly because of the cost's involved due to anything we build here costs twice as much as anywhere else, the Millennium Dome cost one billion pounds & so did our new football stadium Wembley ! there are reports saying that the final costs could be twenty billion pounds. [/quote] ROFL....OMG it does!...once you see it?...you don't see anything else...lol...400k Pounds for that POS?...Geez I need to get job doing graphics for this sort of thing! [/quote]
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Mon, 28 Feb 21:05:00 2011
Iran calls London 2012 logo "racist"
Iran said on Monday it might boycott the 2012 London Olympics because of the event's "racist" logo which resembles the word Zion, the official Irna news agency reported.
The secretary general of the National Olympic Committee said Iran had made the complaint in a letter to the International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge and was waiting for a response.
The London logo shows the numbers 2012 in four jagged multi-coloured figures and was launched in 2007. Zion is a term that refers to the city of Jerusalem and Iran does not recognise Israel.
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