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AP recently released a style guide for the Olympics, and they followed that up this week with a Twitter chat. AP European Sports Editor @stevewilsonap had these tips from the chat:
- The main new sport in the London Games is women's boxing. Two sports are gone - baseball and softball.
- IOC, short for the International Olympic Committee, is OK on first reference. But use full title in the story.
- The IOC was founded in 1894 in Paris.
- AP uses championship for a single event, like a basketball tournament, plural for multiple events such as track championships.
- It's Horse Guards Parade, no apostrophe.
- London is the first city to host the Summer Olympics for a third time. Previous games were 1908 and 1948.
- Olympic rings have five interlocking rings representing five continents. The colors are blue, yellow, black, green and red.
- The year precedes the host city and Olympics. We're months away from the 2012 Olympics or the 2012 London Games.
- Games are only capitalized when attached to a host city. It's the London Summer Games. The games open on July 27.
- Games are also uppercase when they are part of the Summer Games or the Winter Games.
- Always capitalize Olympics, whether it's a noun or an adjective. America won 10 Olympic gold medals at the Summer Olympics.
From the latest AP style changes to timely copy editing reminders, check out everything you need to know to make your copy clean.
