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Olympics threatens to sue the… Redneck Olympics
One features toilet seat horseshoe tossing, the other equestrian games. Now a battle is on over the name ‘Olympics’.
THEY COULDN’T BE farther apart: one focuses on the time-honoured sports of athletics, swimming and gymnastics – the other gives prizes for wife-carrying, lawnmower-racing, and bobbing for pigs’ feet.
But the Wall Street Journal reports that the Redneck Olympics is now being threatened with legal action by the US Olympic Committee over the use of the word ‘Olympic’.
The organiser of the Redneck Olympics in Maine, Harold Brooks, told Fox News that he is not going to change the name.
He said:
[Olympics] is a word that was used by the ancient Greeks. This is just a bunch of rich people looking out for other rich people. It’s sickening that if you own a lot of money, you can own everything – even a word.
However the USOC spokesman told FoxNews.com that the word ‘Olympics’ is in fact the property of the USOC.
It turns out that the Redneck Olympics isn’t the only Redneck event – check out these photos of the fun had at the Redneck Games in East Dublin, Georgia last month:
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