Katya Bachrouche of Libya competes in the women’s 800m Freestyle heats
This is the comment that showed underneath Katya’s picture on the official London Olympics website. [Link]
Why Libya? It doesn’t even sound the same and you can’t confuse our Lebanese flag with the Libyan one. The only thing we have in common is Tripoli. That doesn’t justify CNN’s gaffe last year though. [Link]
Someone owes the Lebanese team an apology.
Update: I submitted a complaint to complaints@enquiries.london2012.com.
Thank you Fadi!
I don’t think they’ll really give a shit.
Looks like the country code or abbreviation for Lebanon is “LIB,” so someone was clearly confused by that. Hope they fix it and apologize!
Obviously you don’t.
But in the Olympics world where it all comes down to fraction of second determining the winner, details do matter, even in reporting.
And this is part of the reason why I feel the Olympics will never come to Lebanon: because most Lebanese just don’t give a shit about details. And if not giving a shit was an Olympic competition, Lebanon would win gold!
The other reason is…what do you think? We should list the top 10 reasons why the Olympics won’t come to Lebanon!!
True Layan,Also if you download the official Olympics app for the Iphone and choose Lebanon as the country to follow you’ll get LIB as the country code.
French is the official language of the olympic committee hence LIB-> Liban
This still keeps the confusion that Libye would become LIB too 😛