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   Marcel de Jong (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 7:46am

   
   

   The Olympics

   it's no longer about the game, but about the money. Greed has corrupted this once great sporting event, and I, for one, will not watch any coverage of the games.
   
   The boardmembers of the IOC have broken the spirit of the games, where competing was more important than winning.

    

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   Brian (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 7:52am

   
   

   Re: The Olympics

   And I will be avoiding anything Olympic as well

    

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   lavi d (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 8:49am

   
   

   All I Can Say...

   "Cool Sporting Event That Takes Place in British Columbia Between 2009 and 2011 Edition."
   
   Well played!

    

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   LumpyDog (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 9:01am

   
   

   Yes, they must feel awful for breaking the spirit of absurd trademark regulations.

    

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   Ima Fish (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 9:04am

   
   

   "They're trying to profit off of the ridiculous free speech restrictions...."
   
   Considering how few of these shits will actually sell, as the vast majority of people won't get it and would not care about the issue even after it was explained to them... I highly doubt this was done for any profit. I think it was done solely as commentary on the ridiculousness of this situation.

    

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   a-dub (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 9:23am

   
   

   Oh how unpatriotic of you to attempt to disrupt our revenue stream!

    

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   Jimr (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 9:37am

   
   

   They must be terrorist.

    

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   Dark Helmet (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 9:38am

   
   

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   "Considering how few of these shits will actually sell"
   
   And the unintended typo of the day award goes to....

    

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   Dave, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 9:39am

   
   

   I'll take 3, anyone got a link to these?

    

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    TSO, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 9:52am

    
    

    > "We expected better sportsmanship from a local Canadian company than to produce a clothing line that attempts to profit from the Games but doesn't support the Games or the success of the Canadian Olympic team."
    
    News exposure for Lululemon: free
    
    A minute of hearty laugh: priceless

     

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    Greg, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 9:55am

    
    

    shirts

    Do you think I'll get sued if I start marketing a line of 'The IOC board are a bunch of douchebags' shirts?

     

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    BigKeithO, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 10:05am

    
    

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    Won't sell? Have you ever seen an ass in Lululemon pants?!? You should be doing everything in your power to make sure that these sell, for the good of mankind of course.
    
    http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?p=21687814
    
    Some nice pics on there if you care to be enlightened.

     

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    william (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 10:07am

    
    

    It's never about the game or the sport or the competition anymore.
    
    The IOC is currently the biggest bully around town, and they are the one to talk about sportsmanship?

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 10:07am

    
    

    Re: shirts

    to direct, to borrow a bit (read this as... a lot) try this instead "Cool Sporting Event That Takes Place in British Columbia Between 2009 and 2011 board members are a bunch of bags for douches." Would make a great second edition for the shirt...

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 10:08am

    
    

    More like:
    
    Another stupid protest that happens for about 15 minutes on the internet by whiners who can't accept the majority decision of democracy.
    
    Mike, stop giving these idiots airtime, it only encuorages them to continue to be stupid.

     

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    Ryan (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 10:08am

    
    

    Re: shirts

    Of course you'll get sued, that's how money is made now a days right? How pathetic!
    
    However a shirt with that statement would surely sell looooooooooots of T's :)

     

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    Pitabred (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 10:11am

    
    

    Re: Re: The Olympics

    I'll put my hat into the ring doing the same

     

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    Designerfx (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 10:11am

    
    

    lululemon

    I've been to one of those, and they're quite a good place! They have a calendar of stuff they do around each month involving free yoga classes and they have stuff that my girlfriend absolutely adores. guys, buy your girl a gift there and reap the reward of your girl wearing yoga pants/panties. Not a sponsor here, but I dig it.
    
    
    Maybe we should change the IOC message? We should say this: ""We expected better sportsmanship from the IOC whom instead attempts to profit from the Games but doesn't support the Games or the success of the Canadian Olympic team."
    
    cut a couple words and voila! the IOC explained.

     

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    Bob, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 10:27am

    
    

    Free advertising

    This is pretty much just another advertising stunt by Lululemon. No doubt they "reported" this "controversy" themselves to the media. Goes right along with their past stunts like writing derogatory graffiti on their stores so people think they're being targeted by vandals.
    
    Don't bother wasting any more of your time giving them the free advertising they want.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 10:29am

    
    

    Typical

    Anyone who knows Lululemon, knows that this is typical of their marketing dept. Kind of refreshing, if you ask me.

     

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    Overcast (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 10:33am

    
    

    "It's never about the game or the sport or the competition anymore.
    
    The IOC is currently the biggest bully around town, and they are the one to talk about sportsmanship?"
    
    +10
    
    Yep - the nerve of them talking about 'sportmanship' if they don't make 100% of the profits, they cry like babies.

     

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    harbingerofdoom (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 10:48am

    
    

    dear USOC:
    please note my request to cap any future bids to host any multinationally attended series of sporting events which are held every four years to a total limit of $5.00USD and one small packet of planters peanuts (not to exceed 6oz) per contestant.

     

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    ., Dec 17th, 2009 @ 10:48am

    
    

    This turns me off a lot.
    
    They killed the spirit of the olympics because of greedy.
    
    Not talking about the t-shirt the other guys.

     

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    Vincent Clement, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 10:56am

    
    

    "We expected better sportsmanship from a local Canadian company than to produce a clothing line that attempts to profit from the Games but doesn't support the Games or the success of the Canadian Olympic team."
    
    Hmmm, seeing as taxpayer dollars are being used to subsidize the "Cool Sporting Event That Takes Place in British Columbia Between 2009 and 2011" and seeing as Lululemon is a Canadian company that pays taxes, I would say that Lululemon has supported the Cool Sporting Event and the Canadian Cool Sporting Event team.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 10:59am

    
    

    CTV have been advertising the Olympics "can I use the word?" for so long now, pretty much every commercial break, that I am so sick and tired of it that I don't know if I can even stomach watching the actual event itself. I used to book vacation time around watching the damned thing in the past.

     

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    Dementia (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 11:34am

    
    

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    I rather see him stop giving your comments airtime, but it's his blog, so let him make the decisions.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 11:37am

    
    

    Just realized I need to do something

    Oh man... I just realized that the Olympics are going to be on TV. I wonder what I'm going to do now that my favorite shows won't be on TV for a few weeks.

     

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    Alan Gerow (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 11:37am

    
    

    How is a clothing company expected to show better sportsmanship? Doesn't it require actually participating in a sport to conduct sportsmanship?

     

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    Steve, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 11:48am

    
    

    The IOC. If there's a buck to be made and we can't have a cut, then we'll stop you from making that buck.

     

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    Steve, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 11:48am

    
    

    The IOC. If there's a buck to be made and we can't have a cut, then we'll stop you from making that buck.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 12:08pm

    
    

    Re: Just realized I need to do something

    Nevermind, I just realized it would be on NBC. Whew!

     

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    Johnny Canada, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 12:11pm

    
    

    Re: Re: Just realized I need to do something

    There will be a good comedy on FOX .... It is called the evening news.

     

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    Casey (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 12:41pm

    
    

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    It was definitely done for profit. The colours of the clothing that is being sold reflect the national colours of the expected 4 biggest players in the winter Olympics: Canada, USA, Sweden, and Russia.
    
    It's also kinda funny that the zippers on the Canadian-coloured apparel are gold and on the USA-coloured apparel they are silver...

     

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    Casey (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 12:43pm

    
    

    Re: The Olympics

    I'm going to see the medal ceremonies with Trooper and Loverboy playing. That will be my contribution to the Olympic movement.

     

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    redrum, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 12:46pm

    
    

    I just wanna see Lindsay Vonn in a pair of those pants..

     

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    Designerfx (profile), Dec 17th, 2009 @ 12:48pm

    
    

    Re: Free advertising

    where do you come up with this crap? How do you suppose the IOC statement came around if it was lululemon that reported it? IOC would have ignored it, probably.

     

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    Chris Brand, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 1:17pm

    
    

    free paper notes "free advertising" angle

    The free "24hrs" paper (apparently http://vancouver24hrs.ca/ - but I can't get there from work) has an article today headlined "Lululemon wins marketing gold" noting that "VANOC's helping them get their name in the news", "It may even inspire others", and "The more VANOC whines about it [...] it's going to make Lululemon look even better".

     

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    Joe, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 2:20pm

    
    

    their response is interesting

    This was a bit of a trap. If Lululemon's response confirmed this clothing line was regarding the Olympics, that's the back door into a lawsuit. But they handled it well, their spokesperson Eric Petersen said this:
    
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    “We sat in a room and people were going, ‘Let’s put 2010 on it, let’s put Vancouver on it,’” he said. “And we said, ‘You can’t do that. You can’t say this.’
    
    “We went through the litany of things you cannot say and started throwing out a bunch of things we felt we could say that were respectful of the rules and regulations.”
    
    According to Petersen, the clothing is aimed at any of the sporting events in the 2009 to 2011 window such as the World Junior Hockey Championships.
    
    “We would never do anything that we felt was ambush marketing,” he added.
    
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    source:http://www.canada.com/life/Lululemon+irks+Olympic+officials+with+rogue +clothing+line/2347227/story.html
    
    So overall - good play to Lululemon. They stayed within the law, made fun of some overbearing restrictions and got a great marketing coup as well.
    
    As an aside, in their hoodie line of clothes, the Canadian hoodies have gold zippers and the american ones have silver zippers :)
    
    
    
    
    
    As an aside,

     

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    What the ???, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 2:30pm

    
    

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    "the majority decision of democracy."
    
    Please explain

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 2:31pm

    
    

    Re: Free advertising

    Yes, because no one else ever gets free advertising with such stunts - huh ?

     

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    Glenn Beck, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 2:33pm

    
    

    Re: Re: Re: Just realized I need to do something

    Hey - you terrorist ... you should be in Guantanamo

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 5:53pm

    
    

    I would have to say this is one of those cases where Mike has been used by a group not looking for anything other than free exposure and a chance to thumb their noses for cash.
    
    FAIL!

     

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    1234, Dec 17th, 2009 @ 8:48pm

    
    

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    Actually it looks more like a win, unless you are from Bizarro world

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 18th, 2009 @ 2:04am

    
    

    Re: The Olympics

    spirit of the game? It's just more bread and better games. Or is that better bread and more games?

     

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    nasch (profile), Dec 18th, 2009 @ 8:00am

    
    

    Re: free paper notes "free advertising" angle

    Are they going to get sued by the IOC for using the word "gold"?

     

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