The Internet must be open during the Beijing Olympics. That was the message a top-ranking International Olympic Committee official delivered Tuesday to Beijing organizers during the first of three days of meetings - the last official sessions between IOC inspectors and the Chinese hosts before the games begin in just over four months.

Beijing routinely blocks Chinese access to some foreign news Web sites and blogs, a practice it has stepped up since rioting broke out over two weeks ago in Tibet.

-AP Sports Writer, Stephen Wade

China's cramping on NBC's television coverage seems to have the International Olympic Committee worried that their communications will be hampered by the Communist government. I guess they want to make sure their twitter tweets aren't going to be censored!

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