After nine years of slippery, slinky competition, the Ferret Olympics is being forced to change its name -- the U.S. Olympic Committee has threatened to sue. Melanee Ellis started the Ferret Olympics, in which ferrets vie for medals in events including the tube run and the paper bag escape, as a fundraiser for a local ferret shelter. U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman Darryl Seibel said the committee's legal department on average asks about 50 groups per year to stop using the name "Olympics."
August 16, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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