Twitter gives a peek into athlete's lives and woes at Olympics
These will be a different Olympics. Quite different from all those we have seen before. The secret life in the Olympic village is likely to be revealed to the world more than ever before.
Not that the TV channels have got any secret cameras installed inside the bedrooms at the Village, but it is social networking site twitter that has opened a new platform for the athletes to reveal the secrets themselves, sometimes supplemented with pictures.
Athletes started arriving into London yesterday and straightaway the media did not even have to run and make its way around London's chaotic traffic in rain to get a peek into what all happened.
But some teams, including the British team, while allowing use of social media, have laid down some grounds for tweeting and appealed to think before they tweet.
The Village and athletes' miseries were once a top secret that organisers always managed to control.
But when an athlete is stuck in traffic for four hours and sees his bus going around in circles, there is little he can do but vent his frustration through twitter available on his smartphone.
This is only bound to increase in the coming days, said an official, who himself was tweeting about his new uniform at the media centre.
American hurdler Kerron Clement, gold medalist at Beijing in 2008, was upset at stuck in London traffic for four hours as their bus driver got lost while rower Maria Gabriela Best from Argentina, who stands 6ft 1in tall tweeted that she was forced to request an extension to her bed.
