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...China, most people didn't seem overly concerned with the Chinese mishaps in the Athens gymnastics hall. After all, there was lots else to cheer, not least the clean performances of China's weight lifters?in contrast to athletes from seven other nations who had to pull out of the chronically drug-plagued sport because of failed doping tests. Olympic fever diverted Shanghai's residents from the oppressive heat blanketing the city, and plenty of bars cranked their air-cons and stayed open all night so that sports fans could catch every second of live action in Athens. With hundreds...
...well, awful. With a lineup stocked with such no-names as Mike Blowers, Mel Hall and Alvaro Espinoza, the Yankees were the laughingstock of the American League, which—while perhaps prompting the occasional chuckle from Boston—provided little fodder for Red Sox fans to either cheer or jeer. Even when New York captured the World Series title in 1996, the response was muted. Another season, like every other since 1918, had come and gone without a World Series victory, but there was little reason to decry that year’s outcome any more than...
...riders argued their case and won. For the rest of the country, the patriotic course is presumably to forget they were ever in strife and cheer for them in Athens. But there's an alternative, which is to stop stifling those pangs of disillusionment. Justice may have been done, but coming on the eve of the festival's return home, this episode makes cherishing the Olympics a little harder. For devotees, it's time to immolate the fantasy and see the Games as they are: not wholly rotten, but deeply flawed...
...riders argued their case and won. For the rest of the country, the patriotic course is presumably to forget they were ever in strife and cheer for them in Athens. But there's an alternative, which is to stop stifling those pangs of disillusionment. Justice may have been done, but coming on the eve of the festival's return home, this episode makes cherishing the Olympics a little harder. For devotees, it's time to immolate the fantasy and see the Games as they are: not wholly rotten, but deeply flawed...
Eagerly awaiting Moore’s arrival, the crowd at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge grew restless and began to cheer his name after the filmmaker did not appear at his scheduled time...