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Law-enforcement authorities and the government did not respond to repeated requests for a comment on the apparent leak. But the incident follows reports from the State Department and Congress criticizing Greece for failure to act against 17 November, a Marxist-Leninist group that has operated with impunity since 1975...
INDICTED. THOMAS WELCH and DAVID JOHNSON, high-ranking Utah Olympics officials; for allegedly paying $1 million in bribes to bring the 2002 Games to their state; in Salt Lake City. Both men denied the charges.
The indictment in Salt Lake overshadowed other news from a Denver courtroom that may ultimately prove far more troublesome for the Olympics. In filing a wrongful-termination lawsuit, Dr. Wade Exum, director of the U.S.O.C.'s drug-control unit for nine years before he stepped down under pressure last month...
The "modern" Olympics, which began in 1896, did not include women, founder Pierre de Coubertin being of the opinion that a woman's "organism is not cut out to sustain certain shocks." No wonder it took until 1984 for women to be allowed to run the Olympics' signature event, the...
This year in Sydney there will be two more signs that these aren't the Victorian Olympics. For the first time, women will compete in weight lifting and the pole vault, once thought of as two of the highest-testosterone events of the Summer Games. Poised to make Olympic history...