Iran threatens London boycott over "racist" Olympic logo - Polidicks

[quote] Iran is threatening to boycott of the 2012 London Olympics because it claims the official logo for the games resembles the word Zion, which is a biblical term for Jerusalem. Bahram Afsharzadeh, the secretary-general of Iran's National Olympic Committee, says he sent a letter to IOC president Jacques Rogge in which he condemns the logo as "racist" and calls upon other Muslim countries to join in protest. The logo was unveiled four years ago to mass criticism, almost all of which had to do with the awkward, bulky design and not pro-Zionist conspiracy: [IMG]http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_oly_experts__12/ept_sports_oly_experts-373939024-1298925348.jpg?ymlsZoEDhZbHpfQJ[/IMG] If you're reading vertically rather than horizontally and think an irregular pentagon resembles the letter "I" then you can sort of make out "zion" in the logo. Although if you read counterclockwise from the bottom left it also looks like "Izzo," which may draw copyright complaints from Jay-Z and cries of protest from Ohio State fans. "There is no doubt that negligence of the issue from your side may affect the presence of some countries in the games, especially Iran, which abides by commitment to the values and principles," Afsharzadeh said in the letter to Rogge. Iran lecturing the IOC on commitment to sporting values and principles is laughable. This is the same nation that's refused to send athletes to compete against Israelis for the past three decades. Complain about the logo all you want but stop with the false piety. The IOC rejected the complaint. "Our response is as follows: The London 2012 logo represents the figure 2012, nothing else," a spokesman said. [/quote]Source: [URL]http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Iran-threatens-London-boycott-over-racist-Olym?urn=oly-327678[/URL] Can't believe they managed to slip this by the censors, good thing they were right there to notice the error.

Fuck! It's all so obvious!

OH GOD, Get me the soccer moms!

How dare they?!

Still looks like a blowjob to me

Good. Less competition.

oh god, not iran! think of all the events that would be made boring!

It's funny because Iran is being racist by associating Judaism with badness.

I support this just because the logo sucks.

[QUOTE=Orkel;28351336]Still looks like a blowjob to me[/QUOTE] Still looks like a horrible angular eye hazard to me :v:

Looks more like Lisa is giving Bart a blowjob.

They might actually get a DECENT and NATIONALLY ACCEPTED logo this time around! Seriously! At the time this was announced there were 1000x better logo suggestions submitted by the public[U]. [img]http://www.tyresmoke.net/attachments/1173172-london_2012.jpg[/img] [/U]

I think it should be changed, but only because it's just awful.

I know what it resembles but I don't know what they were thinking when they decided to use it. Thousands of years from now people are going to discover this horrible logo somewhere around London and will be absolutely confused by it.

I don't get it, it just looks like some drunkard took a basic shape tool, and drew all over the place....

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;28351938]I don't get it, it just looks like some drunkard took a basic shape tool, and drew all over the place....[/QUOTE] And then charged them £400k. Seriously, that WONDEFUL bit of artwork cost £400k

I think it says 2012.

This logo is the ONLY thing that makes me embarrased as a Brit when it's shown

Sounds like more of a religion thing than a racist thing

[QUOTE=Charybdis;28352446]This logo is the ONLY thing that makes me embarrased as a Brit when it's shown[/QUOTE] You haven't seen the mascots then?

[QUOTE=Jsm;28352469]You haven't seen the mascots then?[/QUOTE] I don't even want too. the UK has this great ability to take something like creativity, and getting really creative. Turns out to look like incest.

[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;28352536]I don't even want too. the UK has this great ability to take something like creativity, and getting really creative. Turns out to look like incest.[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/rogermosey/mascot_afp595.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Jsm;28352569][img_thumb]http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/rogermosey/mascot_afp595.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] They look like dildos.

[QUOTE=Jsm;28352569][img_thumb]http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/rogermosey/mascot_afp595.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] What the fuck? Good thing they put a copyright on that. because I would so totally steal that shit because its so good.

[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;28352977]What the fuck? Good thing they put a copyright on that. because I would so totally steal that shit because its so good.[/QUOTE] I really wonder how much they cost. Also, there's merchandise you can buy related to them. You could have one of those in your house if you want it.

The logo's not racist, but still sucks.

Iran is [i]way[/i] late on this. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yUTXXUIA0k[/media] They need this guy to redo the logo. [url]http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2.html[/url]

Well, more medals for everyone else. [url=http://middleeast.about.com/od/iran/a/me080804.htm][img]http://i.imgur.com/XlbUV.png[/img][/url]

[QUOTE=Jsm;28353091]I really wonder how much they cost. Also, there's merchandise you can buy related to them. You could have one of those in your house if you want it.[/QUOTE] No thanks, too much shiny.

It's supposed to look like a 2012