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I'm proud of having competed in two Olympics. Coming away with two medals made it that much more exciting. But when I think back to those Olympic competitions, I don't focus on the medals. Instead it is the fact that I did my best, that I was part...
But I hope last week's drama will help bring some order to our sport. And while I think this has, for the moment, ended equitably for all, the International Skating Union ruling may have opened a can of worms for the sport--and sport is a word I choose...
In the freestyle Tonya event, U.S. kneecappers, as expected, made a gold-silver-bronze sweep of it, but by and large the skullduggery inherent in cheating makes handicapping the favorites in most events difficult if not impossible. At Salt Lake City even the old stereotypes--nobody can cork a curling...
Today the Winter Olympics get cover stories in TIME and wall-to-wall television reportage. For the very first Winter Games, held in Chamonix, France, in 1924, TIME devoted a single column to the events. JOHN HESSIN CLARKE, U.S. Supreme Court Justice from 1918 to 1922, appeared on the cover...
These are not cosmetic changes. "Our foreign policy used to be based on indignity," explains a Beijing scholar. For decades, the country, which had suffered the humiliating defeat in the Opium War in the 19th century, acted as though barbarian troops were threatening to sweep across its soil imminently. But...