Word: olympicsized
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While excellence was evident on the U.S. women's team, a sense of unity was not. Certainly it didn't help that the six competitors and one alternate were thrown together only one month earlier. It helped even less that head coach Bela Karolyi and the other U.S. coaches bickered...
The Unified Team, meanwhile, displayed an uncharacteristic degree of emotionalism during their journey to a 10th gold in as many Olympics. While their camaraderie contrasted starkly with the Americans' standoffishness, the comparison is a bit unfair, since the team's members have lived and trained together for years. Perhaps because...
But two days later when Galieva miraculously came down with a "knee injury" -- thus clearing the way for Gutsu to compete -- it should have revived cold war cynicism. Instead, few rival coaches batted an eye. Indeed, just two weeks before the Olympics, a Pennsylvania gymnast named Kim Kelly, who had...
In basketball, of course, the rest of the world pleaded nolo contendere: no team came within 33 points of the Dream Team during the first week of the Olympics. But plenty of other allegedly sure bets on the U.S. team found themselves absorbing bracing lessons at Barcelona. "You like to...
TV's full-throttle coverage of the Olympics has, as usual, been a matter less of journalism than of mythmaking. Every event, in the gauzy gaze of NBC's commentators, is a test of national character or moral courage. Every athlete has a stirring personal story or a dramatic comeback...