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...Here's the scene: The interview area of the Utah Olympic Oval, downstairs from the speedskating rink, where the press waits for athletes and coaches to emerge from their events and talk (or not) to waiting reporters, producers and broadcasters. A metal barrier stands between the reporters and the competitors' pathway - a separation that just barely keeps athletes from being mauled. If there ever was such a thing as decorum among the press, it's shot to hell the minute a hot interview subject comes into the room...
...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 and spy cameras everywhere, antibiotics and vaccines stockpiled, F-16s overhead and the Secret Service on snowmobiles. It's a whole new team sport, the FBI and Secret Service for once sharing information, patrolling in tandem. Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge has called Salt Lake the safest place...
...weigh from a few pounds to a few tons. They are played from a console, and most importantly, are in tune (perhaps you had better stop thinking of Lowell). The music they create is beautiful (now you should think the opposite of Lowell) and majestic. This is truly heavy metal for the classical music lover...
...much snow. This is the wrong year to go to Winter Olympics! Maybe I should have done the Tour de France. Just so you know, almost 98% of my training has been on dry land. So I have trained only on roller skis, a piece of metal with two wheels at the end. The last 2% was when I was racing. That's when I have skied on snow, when I was racing for qualification in Alaska and Canada. It's just terrible. I'm such an amateur skier and I have to deal with no snow! It's tough...
This raises an interesting question: How do you secure a sporting event without taking the fun out of it? Answer: checkpoints. Control the borders, the theory goes, and you control everything. That's why visitors on the way into the 20 Olympic venues will be scanned with metal detectors, and why all vehicles will be held back 300 ft. Hundreds of surveillance cameras that can scrutinize an ID badge from 1,000 ft. away will watch entrances, exits, highways and parking lots, and spectators are warned not to bring bags larger than 10 in. by 12 in. Utah...