South Africa’s prime new export and most prominent soccer icon, the vuvuzela, is causing world-wide headaches (some literal) to organizers of major sport events.
The latest ban came from the Spanish city of Pamplona who will not allow any plastic trumpets at the annual running of the bulls.
"The municipality has banned the sale of vuvuzelas in the stands set up for the San Fermin festival, due to the noise disturbance they produce," the mayor of the northern town said in a statement.
Reuters report from London that the chief organizer of the London Olympics in 2012 has already said that he does not want any of the noisy plastic trumpets at the games.
They were also banned from the recently completed Wimbledon tennis tournament.
"I'm a libertarian on these issues but Olympic sport is very particular and you wouldn't want anything to trespass on that extraordinary ...
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South Africa’s prime new export and most prominent soccer icon, the vuvuzela, is causing world-wide headaches (some literal) to organizers of major sport events.
The latest ban came from the Spanish city of Pamplona who will not allow any plastic trumpets at the annual running of the bulls.
"The municipality has banned the sale of vuvuzelas in the stands set up for the San Fermin festival, due to the noise disturbance they produce," the mayor of the northern town said in a statement.
Reuters report from London that the chief organizer of the London Olympics in 2012 has already said that he does not want any of the noisy plastic trumpets at the games.
They were also banned from the recently completed Wimbledon tennis tournament.
"I'm a libertarian on these issues but Olympic sport is very particular and you wouldn't want anything to trespass on that extraordinary theatre that takes place in the five or six minutes before the 100 meters final," Coe told Reuters. "It is the silence and expectation that defines that moment and it's very clear most Olympic sports demand very different approaches from spectators."
"I didn't go to the World Cup but from what I'm hearing it has been very well organized," he said. "They have had noisy, passionate stadiums and I'm sure in our country where sport is very important we will have the same," Coe was reported to have said.
Meanwhile the first person to produce the plastic vuvuzela, Neil van Schalkwyk, told I-net Bridge that he was looking forward to keeping the tradition alive in the next World Cup.
"We hope that we can get the Vuvuzela to the 2014 World Cup," he said according to I-net Bridge. "Companies in and outside Brazil have already shown interest, so we will see."
His business, Masincedane Sport, currently produces 8 500 vuvuzelas per day and his trademark registration for the European market has finally came through – after six years of waiting.
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