Australia´s Twitter warning to athletes!

Australian athletes have been warned against using Twitter during competition after officials found competitiors tweeting during last week´s Olympic diving test event in London (England).

Mike Tancred, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) director of media and communications, fears athletes tweeting during competition. Coaches and team managers needed to implement rules to eliminate the risk of social media undermining performances at this year's London 
Games. 

The problem was highlighted at the diving test event in London where athletes were tweeting during the competition. Tancred said: "Last week diving officials stopped the use of social media during the competition, which was also a World Cup event, once they recognized it was happening".

The International Olympic Committee will allow athletes to use social media such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter during the Olympics because it is keen to encourage more youth interest in the Olympics.

The official Olympics and Paralympics Twitter account has 389,103 followers and Tweets every day about sport, culture, behind the scenes information and opinion on the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics!

A. (The Dutch Sportaholic)