Word: olympicsized
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The U.S. squad, led by Hamm and a host of experienced players, ranks as the favorite among the 16 competing nations. Yet defending champion Norway, as well as China or Brazil, could also win the trophy. The U.S. women won the first Cup in China in 1991. Four years later...
Even though Swiss banks finally coughed up $1.25 billion last August in an out-of-court settlement of Holocaust survivors? claims, the country?s image remains badly soiled by such disclosures, which also included accusations that they laundered gold looted by the Nazis. Swiss officials are convinced that such revelations...
"Samaranch?s speech is nothing surprising," says Robert Sullivan, who has covered the Olympics for TIME. "The organization is an insular group and he is a stubborn man who is not someone to change things." Many observers believe that change will eventually be forced on the Olympics for commercial reasons...
1913 Jim Thorpe, winner of pentathlon and decathlon in 1912 Olympics, stripped of medals for having accepted $25 a week to play baseball
1968 Bob Beamon obliterates long-jump record in Mexico City Olympics; at same Games, black runners Tommie Smith, John Carlos stage protest