Ondrej Holzman Things won't be so hot after all with Samsung's order requiring athletes to have iPhone logos plastered on them during the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics. The International Olympic Committee has confirmed that athletes do not have to do any such thing and can use any equipment during the ceremony.
She showed up yesterday message, that Samsung is giving away free Galaxy Note 3 smartphones to Olympic competitors as one of the main sponsors of the sports festival and in return requires them not to use competing products or cover their logos during the opening ceremony of the Olympics. The information came from the Swiss Olympic team.
For the whole case, which stirred up great passions in the ranks of the public, for the server MacRumors responded the spokeswoman of the International Olympic Committee, and as it turned out, the athletes have no such ban ordered by Samsung, or rather, according to the rules of the Olympic Games, they are allowed to use any device at the start.
No, that's not true. Athletes may use any device during the opening ceremony. The classic rules apply as for the previous Games.
The Samsung Note 3 is distributed as a gift to athletes who can use it to capture and share their Olympic experiences. The phones also contain important information about competitions and the organization.
However, the rules of the Olympic Charter continue to apply to athletes, specifically rule 40, which prohibits a competitor, coach, instructor or official at the Olympic Games from being used for advertising purposes, be it their person, name, image or sports performance. The strict conditions of the Olympic Charter allow only one manufacturer's logo on clothing and equipment, and no logo may exceed 10% of the total area of the equipment, as written in the implementing provision of Rule 50.
Although the statement of the spokesperson of the International Olympic Committee does not rule out that Samsung really asked some athletes to cover the logos of competing products, however, this is not an official request of the IOC, which means that the athletes will not be sanctioned for using other devices.
They are already so embarrassing :D Imposing their shitty device and forcing the pasting of the logo of a competitor that they will never beat. That says something about Samshunt in itself, not to mention their other practices.
Why sh.t? Just because it doesn't have an apple on its back doesn't mean it's sh.t. Personally, I have a set of all possible electronics with an apple on my body, but I am seriously considering the Note3. For work (by which I mean real work and not just updating the status on Facebook) it is much, much better equipped...
And what about those logos and inscriptions on snowboards? Don't you mind the Burton logo across the board of the IOC?