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...Junior World Cup circuit. In the past seven years, it has pulled in five. This World Cup season, the U.S. was the only country to field two individual gold medal winners, Lodwick and Demong. So forget the catchphrase from Nike's much-maligned ad campaign launched after the Atlanta Games: "You don't win silver. You lose gold." Todd Lodwick, his teammates and coaches, are all winners at these Olympics...
...Olympic torch burned its way from Olympia to Atlanta, then started winding toward Salt Lake, the ground began to warm. The flame will travel 13,500 miles by dogsled and wheelchair and snowshoe and tennis shoe and tugboat. Rudy Giuliani carried it, exempted from the organizing committee's rule against elected officials as torchbearers. Lyz Glick, widow of Jeremy, a hero of Flight 93, carried it, along with 11,498 others, through frigid streets lined with cheering people--and that was just for the torch...
...dollar booty dangled before Olympic bigwigs by Salt Lake officials in hopes of its being picked as host. Once the financial scandals passed--bribery charges against two of the local organizers were dismissed, although the government is appealing--the security nightmare erupted. Ever since the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996, law-enforcement agencies have known they would have to reinvent Salt Lake's security. The Atlanta budget was more than doubled for Salt Lake, and after Sept. 11, it increased an additional 25%, to $300 million, for the creation of the Bubble. There will be metal detectors...
...poll for the Salt Lake Tribune found that 3 in 5 Utahans perceive a social, cultural and/or political divide between Mormons and non-Mormons. Even the everyday use of the term non-Mormons exposes the divide--nobody talks about the non-Catholics of Boston or the non-Baptists of Atlanta...
...White House, to appropriate tens of millions of dollars from the federal budget for the Salt Lake Games between 1995-2000. They fleeced the taxpayers, the report claims, because much of this expenditure was unnecessary from the federal level in light of how much was spent on the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, which was a much larger event. In any case, the report adds to the growing mountain of evidence of wrongdoing. Right now, the IOC is making a half-hearted effort to clean itself...