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The 2012 Summer Olympic Games are about to begin! This year's games run from July 27th – August 12th in London. We'd like to start this thread now to collect any Olympics related memes from this year and keep research in one spot :)

So far, we've seen:

Does this logo remind you of anything?

Hurdler Michelle Jenneke's routine warmup video | Daily Dot article

and, after several articles revealed the US's #1 weightlifter Sarah Robles was living on $400 a month, the internet raised more than $16,000 to help her out and send her coach to London with her. The attention also helped her get a corporate sponsor.

There's also an Olympics memes Facebook page (article about it), Mashable collected all the official Olympics social media outlets, and a few blogs are calling the mascots occult symbols? Advent of Deception, Holy Hexes

If you find anything, post it here!

I never really watched the Olympics, but this might just give me an excuse to start! I'll keep my eye out for anything

To be honest, I haven't seen any, and the IOC has kind of a stranglehold on all the social media outlets, perhaps because they don't want events to be spoiled. I'll keep an eye out, but I can't see anything too big happening.

Go Team USA!



More images in the gallery of the article

Perhaps something to add to the Vocaloid page. But apparently people were trying to get Hatsune Miku to perform during the Olympics. The polls and other stuff they created for it litterally got thousands of votes. So much that she became the number one vote. Unfortunately she didn't make it, now Muse is performing. But the fact that she gained so much attention was mentioned in a lot of online articles.

So perhaps not a seperate event entry, as she didn't make the cut, but a mention in the Vocaloid entry would be worth it.

• The Top Tens Voting Poll

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The Top Tens article
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Crunchyrole article
Fan site

Here's a vid of a different Miku performance, should give an idea for what to expect if she'd make the cut. But I don't blame the Olympics really, Miku might say a lot here, but to the mainstream she's still a "WTF?".

I am so excited for the Olympics.

@RandomMan

That voting campaign was mainly driven by anti-Korea sentiment on the web. As that voting results says, Korean netizen annoyingly pushes their celebrities in any time, any place. Miku was voted by not only her fans, but also many people who hated that Korean's attitude.

Can KYM document delicate episodes like this?

more illuminati conspiracy stuff

Oh yes, I've seen anti-Korean sentiment almost everywhere on the non-Korean East Asian web. I'm not aware that the Miku victory is related, but it seems plausible.

Olympic Memes? Hmm, possibly, some.

Considering I'm the only one here who lives in London, you probably assume I know a lot about it…

MehBeh.

I haven't seen any olympic memes yet.

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In Spain there is the Chonichandal ( chav tracksuit ). It's this horrible thing the players will be wearing during the olympics (Please, wear sunglasses before staring at it)

Nothing yet, but I'll keep an eye out. :D
Actually, I think the US Olympic Team photos are hilariously bad, and could be a meme.

Opening Ceremony related Twitter hashtag #savethesurprise

the director (who also directed Slumdog Millionaire) asked the 60k people attending rehearsals not to tweet about it daily dot article

I wonder how many millions of dollars they blew on that retarded looking Simpsons logo?

Post about the Spanish Olympic uniform on Buzzfeed

There's this Yahoo Sports writer named Chris Chase. He has been notorious for writing poorly written articles especially involving the Olympics. He's mainly part of blogs such as Busted Racquet and Fourth Place Medal. Since he began writing since 2008, I think an entry for Chris Chase would be good. There's even a Facebook petition to fire him, not to mention there's a plethora of hatred towards him in the Yahoo comments.

The Taiwanese flag controversy has been noted by several media and sparked a series of "get the flag back" photo fads by raising the Taiwanese flag back to the original.
Originally the flag was hung by neighborhood communities, not by the Olympic Committee.

News article, Taipei Times
Taiwanese citizens who arrived at London for the event started a photo fad, putting the flag back.

French News, Le Parisen (minor NFSW) A girl's response to the controversy.

What about the Tom Daley Twitter controversy and the 17-year-old troll that was arrested for it?
It has gained some momentum. Does anyone know more about it?

I've seen a lot of pish-posh about some 15-year old who got a gold medal. I can't confirm it though, because I don't watch it.

Could very well go as an event.

There's been a few twitter related incidents, 2 olympians have been disqualified for racist tweets: swiss soccer player greek track star

NPR article on social media's effect on the olympics

I'm not positive, but I've seen this guy's shoulder blades around.

Here's a summary of notable events & episodes:

- London Olympic Official Logo
- Olympians' Twitter Controversies
- IOC Official Luncheon $70000 Receipt Controversy
- Online Poll for Artists to Perform at Olympics
- LEGO Re-enactment Videos

- Queen Elizabeth at the Opening Ceremony
- Spain's Uniform
- Perfectly Timed Olympic Divers Photos
- Olympics or Gay Porn
- Dangling Boris
- Bolting

There's a lot it seems, Brad.

I've heard a lot about cheating at this olympic games; one particular moment involved badminton (sic), including a player who quit the sport because of how unfair she felt she was treated.

LMK on how this could fit in with everything else.

Dumping a couple more news links:

NY Times / 10 Animated GIFs from London 2012

NBC Chicago / The Olympics Meme Games

Here's an article involving the McKayla Maroney meme. Warning, this article is by Chris Chase.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/mckayla-maroney-gets-mckayla-not-impressed-meme-194637045--oly.html

Not sure if it's relevant, but here's an article about how Ed Sheeran's fan mistook his cover of "Wish You Were Here" for a new song during the closing ceremony.

http://www.gigwise.com/news/75410/ed-sheeran-fans-mistake-pink-floyd-hit-for-new-song