Word: olympiads
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...evil) Big Apple quartet of Rangers, Giants, Yankees and Knicks, and Sean loves his K-State Wildcats, KU Jayhawks and K.C. Chiefs. Avid back-page browsers will note my undying devotion to baseball's Braves, and civic pride makes me a little giddy regarding the upcoming centennial Olympiad...
...Bernat Picornell Pool but the strains of another anthem. And the man who lays claim to being the new Johnny Weissmuller, the new Mark Spitz, the new Matt Biondi, is a fellow from Volgograd named Popov, winner of the 50-m free and the fastest swimmer of the XXVth Olympiad...
That was a little how it felt as Barcelona, the often unshaven but designer- crazy capital of Catalonia, set flame to the Games of the 25th Olympiad. The occasion was a golden opportunity for presenting the city as a shiny new capital of a postnational world. It was also a quadrilingual glimpse into a multicultural future. Music at the celebrations that opened the Games came from an atlas of names -- Ryuichi Sakamoto, Angelo Badalamenti (of Twin Peaks fame), Andrew Lloyd Webber; Placido Domingo was followed by a sea of "living sculptures" designed by a man from the West Indies...
...Boston Globe's news analysis the morning after the debate called the debate dull and said it did little to point out differences between the candidates. The New York Times satirically termed it an "intellectual Olympiad...
...Montreal Star's music critic said of a revival this week of an eighteenth-century Italian opera, `L'Olimpiade,' that it lacked focus. In the main Olympiad, the focus has been on East Germany, with the strains of whose national anthem we are now as well acquainted as with `Aida...