Word: olympicsized
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Salt Lake City, at the base of the splendid and snowy Wasatch mountains, placed a close second to Nagano, Japan, in the race to host the 1998 Winter Olympics. So the pious and dogged capital of Utah went back to work on its fifth bid in three decades.
Ultimately, the International Olympic Committee awarded the city the 2002 Winter Olympics by an overwhelming margin. Mormon determination, it seemed, had paid off. Or had it?
After a leak to a Salt Lake City TV station by a disgruntled employee of the local organizing committee and provocative questions raised by a member of the I.O.C., the Salt Lake Olympic bidders stand suspected of bribing the I.O.C. members who decide where the next Olympics will take place...
Lipinski has said she gave up amateur competition so that she could spend more time with her family, making her perhaps the only teenager in America who actually wants to live at home. "More time," however, is a relative term. Lipinski's days are filled with promotional appearances at department...
For her part, Kwan, 18, continues to skate at an elite level, showing no loss of determination in the wake of Nagano. She won this year's national and world crowns--titles Lipinski had taken from her the year before--and is already pointing toward the 2002 Olympics in Salt...