- UK bans leaders who abuse rights
- Saudis allow women to compete
- Racist tweet ends Olympic dream
- I didn't make the Olympics. Now what?--"I spent years training for gold, but came up short at the trials. Where does an obsession go when the dream dies." Salon
- Longing for the Return of Dueling Pistol--"As the Olympics has grown and modernized over the years, many events have fallen by the wayside. While many are unmourned — does anyone miss club swinging? — others could easily return to the program. Here are the top 10 events that would be exciting to resurrect." NYT
- US Olympic Committee says sorry to knitters whom it claimed "denigrated" the games
- London Olympic committee says you're only allowed to link to their site if you have nice things to say
- Olympics Can't Handle An Official Parody Twitter Account, So Twitter Takes It Down
- How to Fix the Olympics
- Can London Afford the $14.5 Billion Price Tag of the Summer 2012 Olympic Games?
- London 2012 Olympics: 10 to a room and 1 shower for 75 people: Inside the 'slum' camp for Olympic cleaners
- Olympic beer to cost £7.23 a pint
- Cambodian workers on £10 a week making Olympics 'fanwear'--"Adidas, the sportswear company, is facing an investigation over claims that Cambodian workers are being paid £10 a week in basic wages to make official merchandise for the London Olympics."
- Creepy Olympic mascots take over London
- London 2012 anti-logos Salon
- Britain Flooded with 'Brand Police' to Protect Olympic Sponsors
- McDonald's Olympics French Fry Monopoly: Sponsorship Deal Bans Other Vendors From Selling Fries
- Lord Coe's astonishing sponsors outburst--"Heavy-handed security chiefs will ban Olympic spectators for wearing the wrong brand of clothes...."
- Censorship Olympics: The organisers of the Games have been handed unprecedented control over everyday speech
- Graffiti artist who worked for Adidas is banned from Olympic Games venues
- Olympic security contractor G4S told ministers... it could not fulfil brief--The failure to provide enough guards was a "humiliating shambles."
- TSA agents to staff UK airports during Olympics
- London 2012: even Beijing didn't put an army on the gates--"Olympics organisers say visitors will find the huge military presence at the Games 'reassuring' – the most questionable of claims." That's fascist talk.
- London residents lose missiles case --"Worried residents have lost a High Court battle to stop surface-to-air missiles being stationed on the roof of a 17-storey residential tower block during the London Olympics."
- Olympics security poster 'gibberish' to Arabic speakers
