This article from the L.A. Times is a good example of what I hate about the Olympics.

The Olympics movement has passed over Chicago, but it has left a lasting and unpleasant mark on George Tsoukas’ business.

He has owned a butcher shop here for about 40 years. But a year or two ago, Olympic Meat Packers Inc. had to be renamed Olympia Meat Packers Inc. because federal law gives the U.S. Olympic Committee a trademark on the word "Olympic."

Tsoukas, whose family is Greek, says he sometimes forgets and answers the phone with the old name.

"My customers, they hang up on me and they think it’s a different business," he says. "I’m so used to ‘Olympic Meat’ . . . and it’s so hard for me to remember ‘Olympia.’ "

The USOC enforces its exclusive rights to the word "Olympic" under the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act of 1998. The law includes a clause explaining that businesses using the word "Olympic" before Sept. 21, 1950, are unaffected by the law.

"It’s our heritage. It’s our tradition," said Tsoukas’ son, Nick, who manages the shop. "It comes from ancient Greece. . . . So I feel kind of like they’re taking that away from us. . . . I was really surprised that they were calling, and they demanded that we change our name."

Not only are the Olympic organizing committees corrupt (how else do you explain the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia) but they are also unjust, unfair, and downright silly in enforcing their trademark.