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For all the evocations of international camaraderie, the Olympics are a lot about national pride. And so, beyond Dante, the peninsula trotted out stars to tout its culture: Giorgio Armani designing costumes; Sophia Loren carrying the Olympic flag; supermodel Carla Bruni slinking in with the Italian flag; Luciano Pavarotti singing...
Reminders of the harsher realities were perceptible, however. The Olympics are about the pride of the host country, but the Games also bring in worldly and cruel anxieties. Danish athletes reportedly received special protection because of the global swirl of threats surrounding the publication of cartoons inimical to the Prophet...
As for the internal controversies of the Olympics, they were on parade even before the opening ceremony. Propecia sounds like an Olympian god, and so it had its sacrificial victim. U.S. skeleton slider Zach Lund clearly needs the drug, used to reduce hair loss due to male-pattern baldness but...
And that is the point, after all, in spite of patriotic excess, overpowering wedding-banquet music and all sorts of anxiety. It is the refuge of sport that keeps athletes and fans coming back for the Olympics, summer or winteran exhilaration felt with the U.S.'s first gold medal on...
900,000 Population of Torino, largest city ever to be host to a Winter Olympics