I’ve gotta say, the International Olympic Committee has a habit of taking perfectly fine bid logos and replacing them with ugly official games logos. This one’s up there with Stereotypical Generic Asian Country 2008 and Arctic 2010.

So this week is the first bit of the XXth Olympic Winter Games in Torino. The first thing that I noticed when I heard about Torino was ‘where in bloody hell is Torino?’ It’s not one of those huge, well-known cities. It’s not even a small, well-known city. The second thing I noticed was that the media couldn’t decide whether to use Torino or Turin and so they decided to use both. (more…)