Olympic ideals.

I heard on the radio this morning that the word Olympic is legally protected and the author of a new children’s book Olympic Mind Games has been threatened for having it in the title. Crazy. To support the word, I am immediately buying his book and have added the tag Olympic fairly randomly to some of my flickr photos.
Although not in Johnson’s (1818) dictionary – the old buffer didn’t like words of Greek origin – the phrase Olympic Games is to be found in Bailey’s earlier (1728) English dictionary.