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Harvard has a long history with the Olympics. James B. Connolly, Class of 1898, won the first-ever gold medal of the modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. Connolly competed in the hop, skip and jump, now commonly known as the triple jump...
...Without Bela and his Romanian discipline, the American cause is hopeless. My blockmate disagrees: "They're normal, healthy chicks, unlike the Russian and Romanian peasant girls. Those gymnasts don't go to school and they just practice all day to escape their misery. I'd choose freedom over a gold medal any day." Whatever. I certainly wouldn't. Gymnastics is all about contortion, stunted growth, hopeless oppression and tears shed for the sake of the cameras. As soon as we wipe those "normal, healthy" smiles off our girls' faces with an iron fist and a no ice-cream policy...
...Svetlana mad during the team competition, nothing could have prepared anyone for the fury that came when she discovered that the vault had been mismanaged. Spouting and screaming, twitching and reddening, she took everyone to task for a conspiracy that she believed was intended solely to derail her gold medal hopes. When reporters tried to get her to sum up her feelings, she had two words for them: "Piss...
...puffed, "I give this medal to the people of Russia. I will never forgive what they have done to me here, but this is for the people who need this, of people who need to be uplifted." I'm thinking, "Dude, Svetlana. Come on now. An uneven bars gold medal is nice and pretty, but I don't think it's going to erase a decade of oppression...
...ring for what could be the title fight of election issues. On Friday, the Republican challenger will unveil his energy policy for America, his proposal to fill the void that he says the Clinton administration has left on the issue. Here's a hint: They call it black gold. Texas tea. Oil, that...