Word: olympicsized
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The suspense about who will win the men's basketball gold this Saturday night evaporated before the games were even awarded to Atlanta. Ever since the International Olympic Committee permitted NBA stars into the Olympics, it was a foregone conclusion that the U.S. would run away with the top spot...
Today's Olympics are reminiscent of a labor-union picnic: sack races, rolling-pin-throwing contests, you name it. We should return to the classic Olympics, to the original Greek concepts--wrestling, swimming, track and field--and forget the embellishments. ROBERT E. DAEHN Sanford, Florida
In your coverage of the Atlanta Olympics, you failed to mention the in-your-face commercialism that abounded there (heck, the Olympic torch was burning out of a stylized McDonald's French fries carton). The opening ceremonies with pickup trucks and a good-ole-boy theme and the U.S.'s...
The Atlanta games deprived the TV audience of glorious uncertainty [PUBLIC EYE, Aug. 5]. Indeed, to tune in to the Summer Olympics was to confront images of prerecorded events decorated with music, slow-motion sequences and never-ending commercials. The spirit of the Games turned into a sentimental display of...
My reaction to Margaret Carlson's "The Soap Opera Games": Lighten up! I was under the impression that part of the Olympic spirit was overcoming adversity. People can't understand that there is more to the Olympics than competition. KIM JUSTICE McKinney, Texas