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Ferret Olympics Forced To Change Name By USOC
by Deseret News (Salt Lake City),
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- After nine years of slippery, slinky competition, the
Ferret Olympics is being forced to change its name - - the U.S. Olympic
Committee has threatened to sue.
An estimated 75 ferrets will vie for medals at the Ferret Agility Trials on
Sunday in events including the tube run and the paper bag escape. Only "they
are
not Olympians anymore," organizer Melanee Ellis said with a laugh.
Ellis started the Ferret Olympics in 1996, the year of the Atlanta Games, as
a fund-raiser for a local ferret shelter.
The Ferret Olympics didn't attract much attention until the local newspaper
reported on it in 2004, Ellis said.
Within two weeks of the story, she received phone calls from the BBC in
London, "Late Show with David Letterman," "The Ellen Degeneres Show" and,
eventually, the U.S. Olympic Committee.
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