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The ban against Olympic athletes writing or talking about their experience
is a violation of the athlete's free speech rights and can not be enforced
against those who choose to ignore it.

Even if the athlete agrees to it as a condition of participating, the rule
of the Olympic committee is a proscriptive sanction standing contrary to the
public policy of free societies and international law and would never be
upheld by the courts.

The committee may prohibit the use of steroids to stop an athlete from
gaining unfair advantage over another, to prohibit cheating, to proscribe
the rules of order on the field. However, mere words spoken or written
before, during, or after the events have no influence over whether or not an
athlete can run a four-minute mile.

The Olympic committee may have the right, under certain conditions, to
regulate communication by its officers and employees, but Olympic athletes
are not the employees or indentured servants of the Olympic committee, nor
are they any longer the slaves of their sponsors. They are free men and
women participating in an open competitive event as a matter of personal
choice. The committee has no legitimate right to censure them.

Regardless of any monetary concern of the Olympic committee, the right of
the individual to speak and communicate freely supercedes any commercial
interest of the games or its promoters.

Let the ban stop, and let the games begin.
-- 
Jack Rooney
http://home.att.net/~JackRooney

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