China decrees - Olympic gold medalists names belong to the Athletes
August 21st, 2008 by 
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Might as well.
sometimes, you have to commend the China model. They get things done faster.
What is fair is fair. If you are a celebrity, you don’t want somebody using your name as a website and benefitting from it - or worse - use it to malign you or promote other interest.
China limits use of Olympians’ names online - Yahoo! News
The move announced Tuesday came after companies registered the names of winning Chinese athletes at the 2004 Athens Olympics as Web addresses, prompting an outcry by sports fans.“The move will better protect the interests of the Olympic gold medalists,” said an official of the government’s China Internet Network Information Center, quoted by the state Xinhua News Agency. It identified him only by the surname Hu.
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