NBCUniversal to launch a website showing Twitter posts from athletes, Olympic fans and other insiders.
The decision elicited some grumbles among Olympic fans, and sent Twitter ablaze with people trading links to unauthorized live webcasts of the Games.
It was important that Pennell and his teams were in touch with consumer and workplace technology trends, and could predict how they would be used by the media and by Olympic fans around the world, building the infrastructure to support that.
"In an effort to ensure the Olympic Games remain relevant to sports fans of all generations, the Olympic Programme Commission systematically reviews every sport following each edition of the Games, " the IOC said in its statement Tuesday.
Ennis was one of the faces of London 2012, delighting British fans in the Olympic Stadium by clinching heptathlon gold at her home Games.
British sports fans going into the Olympic Park on Wednesday called the scandal "shocking" after seeing parts of the matches on television.
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U.S. Olympic champion Jordan Burroughs said the fans inside the arena were overwhelmingly supportive of the competitors, regardless of what country they wrestled for.
When the 2012 Olympic Games kicked off, all eyes were on Michael Phelps, as fans wondered whether he could break the all-time record for career Olympic medals.
Over the years millions of fans have been carried along Olympic Way, more commonly known as Wembley Way, as they came to pay homage at one of the world's great sporting arenas.
The controversy unfolds at a delicate time for Spain: Madrid is among the finalist to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, and Spanish athletes and fans have been criticized and sanctioned for actions deemed racially insensitive.
In 1996, Ali brought millions of fans to tears at the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Olympic champion Etienne Stott has been cheered by fans during an open-top bus parade through Bedford and renamed a white water arena in his honour.
In Rome, angry fans attacked a police barracks outside the Olympic Stadium, injuring 40 police officers and causing havoc and destruction into the night.
The association rejected the Olympic Stadium despite it holding more than 80, 000 fans, twice as many as the SCG.
From the social media restrictions made on the Olympic Athletes to the blame that was put on the fans for jamming GPS systems and networks with tweets and texts, it was brutally evident that the IOC had no understanding of the role social media platforms have played in shaping the way the world, and more specifically the Millennial Generation, communicates today.
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Isam Mohamed El-Hajj Hassan, known to his fans as Karabino, returns from Japan with two Olympic medals in his sights -- hopefully as early as the Rio De Janeiro games in 2016.
Evidenced by the fact that our family grew up Montreal Expos fans, given that the money pit known as Olympic Stadium was a mere 113 miles from my front door.
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"The inclusion of these events on the Olympic Winter Games program is sure to be appreciated by athletes and sports fans alike, " IOC president Jacques Rogge said.
Overseas fans will be able to use other cards if purchasing tickets from their national Olympic committee, rather than London 2012 sites.
Wrestling fans and sports fans alike were surprised on Tuesday when the IOC voted to cut wrestling from the 2020 Olympic program.
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Sporting his national tracksuit and with the gold medal around his neck, the 26-year-old student and Olympic first-timer hopped on to a carriage with an entourage of some 20 celebrating Venezuelan team-mates and fans.
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