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Heavy winds made sailing practice on the harbor impossible; Olympic buses went off course or crashed into one another; doping news played on and on. No previous Olympics had seen such a rash of 11th-hour banishments and "withdrawals"; China trimmed its roster by no fewer than 27 athletes who...
It's hard for an American to understand just how much sports means to these people. I mean, we're pretty sports-crazed, but nothing like this. "A land were sport is sacred," Henry Lawson called it. (They like to call Lawson "Australia's Mark Twain," but he's no...
I went out to Bondi Beach for the women's beach volleyball final. It was one of only two cloudy days during the whole Olympics, but I'll tell you, Bondi made its own sunshine. The waves were up and the surfers were out - hey, did you hear two surfers...
The next afternoon at the boxing quarterfinals, there was a moment when I realized the Cold War is not only history, it's cold history. In the space of a half hour I saw Jeff Lacy, the American armed robber turned 165-pound contender, stopped by a Russian, then our...
3. The vault was set too low during the women's all-around. When's the last time you heard of an equipment failure during the Olympics? It has to be an NBC conspiracy. The ratings have been an abomination.