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At a nearby table, Al Falcao, from Toronto, holds court. He's something of a celebrity in the pin-trading scene - a king pin, if you will. "You need a bit of savvy," he explains. Falcao has come a long way since he stuck his first seven pins into a...
Such are the disappointments of this, the Olympics' biggest unofficial sport. But win, lose or draw, at least Falcao and his pinhead friends can console themselves with the prospect of a few thousand more tiny medals.
According to early ratings, fewer Americans are tuning in to watch the Olympics in Sydney than any other Summer Games since 1968 in Mexico City
And the Olympic coverage itself is suffering from an excess of fluff that had one Los Angeles Times report dub it "Sports vs. Human Interest Stories During NBC's Olympics."
The 1988 Olympics in Seoul suffered from some of the same logistical and timing issues that now plague Sydney, but there was something different about those Games.