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Everybody appreciates good losers. During the Olympics, we adore spectacular ones. Remember British ski jumper Eddie the Eagle or the 1988 Jamaican bobsledders? Such efforts are so amazingly futile that the athletes win fans' hearts, if no medals, and garner the kind of media adoration that even winners don't usually...
...Zeitgeist every fourth year only to melt away in the post-Games thaw-is at an all-time high. At Salt Lake we'll have all kinds of sleds, cross-country races (some with guns!), ski jumps and ski-jump hybrids. In the past, these events have given us Jamaican bobsledders, hyperdrugged European ski champs and Eddie the Eagle, Great Britain's wonderfully woebegone ski jumper who had all of Calgary ducking for cover in 1988. The U.S. has won about a medal and a half...
Richard Reid, the 28-year-old Anglo-Jamaican who on Dec. 22 tried to blow up an American Airlines plane by igniting explosives in his sneakers, was ripe for recruitment. He converted to Islam in 1995 while serving time for petty theft. Unlike Moussaoui, though, he was not a committed hard-liner when he arrived at the Brixton Mosque the following year. Over time the amiable, eager-to-learn Reid become more extremist and argumentative. He was not seen for a while, according to mosque chairman Abdul Haqq Baker, and when he returned he wore military fatigues and talked about...
During their stay, the Crimson also defeated the Jamaican national team, with No. 2 James Bullock, who hails from Kingston, treated as the favorite...
...He’s a hero to Jamaican squash,” Patterson said. “The girls love him down there...