The USOC is demanding oiselle removes Trials pictures

I much appreciate all of the useful clarifications of the issue in this thread.

Is this being enforced equally? Example: does the USOC have a problem with this tweet?

https://twitter.com/brooksrunning/status/749770010441113601

Seems to be doing the same thing: celebrating Taiwo's decathlon performance and making the team, shows pic of him in Brooks kit w/ "rio" in the hashtag.

Somewhat related...USA Basketball released the official team picture of the Mens Basketball team. The non-Nike athletes had their shoes very carefully hidden, just as in past years. That's how contracts work, despite what Oiselle thinks.

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2016/7/18/12215962/nike-usa-basketball-hiding-shoes-team-photo-adidas-nope-reebok-nope

The mafia does very well with the tactic of "pay up" or your legs (pictures) will be broken.

800 dude wrote:

Here's the big overreach: "Do not...congratulate Olympic performance unless you are an official sponsor." That's plainly ridiculous. Every shoe company ignores this guideline, as well they should. Remember all those full page ads of Brian Sell wrapped in the American flag after the Trials in '07?

This is 2016. New rules. Typical IP enforcement too. They go after the weakest target to steamroll them, sending a message.

I think it's wrong, but I don't care. They are shrinking their own business that deserves to be much smaller than it is.

Sally dearest, if you don't like it you can leave the State of Washington and move to a place with a fascist, racist, military dictatorship, with no voting and no human rights -- Turkey, Russia, Israel, Afghanistan, Iran, Texas, North Korea, US Mandate of Palestine, Iraq, Cuba, etc. Bye now. Don't come back.

Does track & field have the biggest collection of twitter whiners in all of sport? The majority of tweets from pros and people associated with the sport is straight up bitching 100% of the time.

You're the one whining, you simpering little wimp Nike shill. Are they paying you time and a half tonight? (that would be $12.75/hour in your case)

Yes, you are whining a lot wrote:

Does track & field have the biggest collection of twitter whiners in all of sport? The majority of tweets from pros and people associated with the sport is straight up bitching 100% of the time.

You're the one whining, you simpering little wimp Nike shill. Are they paying you time and a half tonight? (that would be $12.75/hour in your case)

Ever heard of the concept of high bid? She could have bid for the same sponsorship slot that Nike got. It's a free marketplace. Oh, her little company above an old restaurant in Seattle can't afford it? Poor little flock.

If someone had a car company with 6 employees in an attic, maybe they would find it difficult to compete with GM or Ford. Such is business. If Sally don't like it, she can move to China, or North Korea.

logohappy wrote:

Somewhat related...USA Basketball released the official team picture of the Mens Basketball team. The non-Nike athletes had their shoes very carefully hidden, just as in past years. That's how contracts work, despite what Oiselle thinks.

Sally dearest wrote:

Sally dearest, if you don't like it you can leave the State of Washington and move to a place with a fascist, racist, military dictatorship, with no voting and no human rights -- Turkey, Russia, Israel, Afghanistan, Iran, Texas, North Korea, US Mandate of Palestine, Iraq, Cuba, etc. Bye now. Don't come back.

Pay up, Sal! wrote:

Ever heard of the concept of high bid? She could have bid for the same sponsorship slot that Nike got. It's a free marketplace. Oh, her little company above an old restaurant in Seattle can't afford it? Poor little flock.

Are you all the same idiot?

Oiselle has the right--not just the moral right, but the LEGAL right--to promote their own athletes as Olympians. You can't contract for a monopoly on the right to advertise true facts about athletes, such as the fact that they qualified for the Olympics while wearing your apparel and the fact that you financially supported their training.

USATF/Nike are the ones who should "move to a place with a facist dictatorship" if they want to use the government to crush their competitors instead of competing in a free market.

You couldn't have made it more clear how threatened by Oiselle you are. Interesting how whenever Oiselle is mentioned, we see the same Nike/USATF people on here bashing them.

JMS3 wrote:

You couldn't have made it more clear how threatened by Oiselle you are. Interesting how whenever Oiselle is mentioned, we see the same Nike/USATF people on here bashing them.

I'm prettysure they have better things to do. Now oiselle doesn't

#BDS wrote:

Well, Sally should not move to Apartheid israel even if she is Jewish. That's obvious.

Why are you throwing an inflammatory political comment into this? I don't think there's a lot of evidence that Bergesen is Jewish.

Her last name is clearly Jewish.

Semite wrote:

Her last name is clearly Jewish.

Clear only to a moron. Scandihoovian!

And even if she was Jewish, so what? Is that justification for demeaning Israel as one poster above did?