The Gardeners' World Blog

Freedom of information is already a recurring theme of this Olympics.

It’s something the IOC grappled with in one small form over the issue of whether to allow athletes to blog from the Games.

The main concern for the IOC was that of media rights – ie a blog could in theory be used to ‘cover’ the event as a journalist tool.

The way round this was to stipulate in new guidelines issued in February that: "The IOC considers blogging ... as a legitimate form of personal expression and not a form of journalism," and to allow bloggers only to do so from unaccredited areas.