Going to the Olympics is a very expensive thing. For guys in lesser-known sports, like New Zealand Olympian and taekwondo practitioner Logan Campbell, the cost of going to the Olympics will work out to be about $150,000. To go to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Campbell depended mostly on his parents. For the 2012 Olympics, his fundraising idea was simple: open a brothel. The New Zealand Olympic Committee isn’t too keen on that idea, and is currently threatening to sue Logan’s pants off.
In New Zealand, owning a brothel is perfectly legal. Using sex as a fundraising effort is also pretty ingenious, and has worked for breast cancer research, among other thing. However, the issue is associating the Olympics with the prostitution. Campbell can run his pandering business, but the IOC isn’t too keen on having its brand associated with paying for sex, legal or not, and since the Olympics is a trademarked and copywritten legal entity, they’re within their rights to tell him to stop pimping the IOC without permission.
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