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Olympic Alarm Bells Set RingingJul 25, 2012 (Radio Free Europe Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- July 25, 2012 Iran's Fars news agency, in an online report about the thousands of cellphones that will be either stolen or lost during the Olympic Games, decided to illustrate the story with a graphic of the Olympics' iconic rings. Only these five Olympic rings were multicolored condoms. The graphic, which has since been replaced, has been making the rounds on Iranian social media, sparking more than a few chuckles. There's no clear indication of why the Fars editor originally decided to use the provocative graphic. Or why Fars has a graphic of the Olympic rings as condoms in its graphic database in the first place. The International Olympic Committee -- which is very protective of its Olympic trademarks -- may have had something to say about its ultimate removal. Copyright (c) 2011. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. www.rferl.org |