bocog

Some of our fellow countrymen never hated the word ‘lottery’ that much until BOCOG employed it in their ticket sales early this year. It may be convenient for most visitors outside of China to get their tickets from companies like CoSport or Aristeia, however, things are a lot more complicated when you’re on the inside. [...]

Pelops is back, and this time is personal. Computer is fixed, vacation expended, DVD collection exhausted - it’s a shame that just as I get back to blogging it all goes a little quiet on the Olympic front.
Here’s a couple of bolts out of the 2008 Beijing Olympic blue, just to get things rolling with [...]

Irony. Or perhaps another word that is equally hard to accurately use.
Sometimes you’ve just got to giggle, and start turning over Rolling Stones lyrics in your head: “You can’t always get what you want … you get what you need”.
What Beijing wanted was a couple of cutesy characters that the masses would adore and desire [...]

It’s the old hardware versus software debate: China can build the fanciest stadiums and the quickest trains and the most hi-tech satellites, but until it gets people overseas thinking positive things about the Olympics, the games will continue to come with an asterix in many minds.
So how is the Bocog PR machine attempting to combat [...]