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...fewer than 27 athletes who might have proved an embarrassment by testing positive in Sydney. Every Olympic press conference I went to opened with a drug question or six, and finally Aussie swim coach Don Talbot had had his fill. "I don't know if it's cast a cloud over these Games," he barked. "Look, you keep trying to bring the drug issue up. We're not going to answer! We're trying to get ready here." Things were getting tense...
...only learned of the test results last week, but Mo Greene said that he and everyone else have known for a while. If this is true, then C.J. really blew it. Team Marion should have held a press conference weeks ago in the States, said there's this cloud over C.J., said C.J.'s staying home, said Marion's going on her quest alone, yadda, yadda, yadda. They must realize they have enemies, and someone was going to leak this during the Games...
...result of all this nonsense is that nobody knows who's doped and who's clean, and so a cloud of suspicion is cast over...
...pool," said De Bruijn of the host country's enthusiasm for swimming and the 17,500 fans who rattled the roof with joy after each world record was rewritten. "I still feel like I am dreaming," she said after her 100-m freestyle victory. "It's a big cloud I am on." The question surrounding what the Dutchwoman might be on remained a dark cloud over the aquatic center despite eight glorious days of competition. "I absolutely do not think this is a drug-free Olympics," said U.S. women's coach Richard Quick. "I am not pointing the finger...
...quest to beatify a conservative Pope, the Roman Catholic Church keeps stubbing its toe on potential "saints" who lived under a dark cloud of racism--first Pius XII and now badly flawed Pius IX [RELIGION, Sept. 4]. Doesn't it seem ridiculous that grown men are digging up dead bodies and making new godlings? At the start of the 21st century, one might hope the church would come to grips with important issues, perhaps even re-examine its opposition to birth control, abortion and divorce. Those three matters alone would alleviate a great deal of suffering. If Pius...