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...sports at Salt Lake, with the exception of skating, hockey and (maybe) skiing, seem like exotic concoctions dreamed up by the Vikings, which of course they are. How many of us have careened down an ice chute in a bottle rocket (bobsleigh) or cross-country skied while firing a rifle (biathlon)? Does it make any sense how someone loses points during the moguls competition...
...Olympics in Sydney in 2000, for example, I recall a moving tale of a Kenyan middle-distance runner who perservered in the face of civil war, poverty and famine. The considerable complexity of many of the winter sports leads to less dramatic tales. A human-interest story at the Salt Lake Winter Games might go something like this...
With such few countries able to compete in the Winter Games, the usual patriotic fervor of a Summer Olympics is also lost. While there will certainly be a strong American spirit at Salt Lake City, this year is an exception...
Corruption has also tainted these Games, no matter how much Mitt Romney, Senator Orrin Hatch and the rest of the Salt Lake Olympic Commitee (SLOC) try to bury the story. Much of the stain on the Olympic Games in the past five years has come from the scandal over 1995’s selection of Salt Lake City as the host city...
Kickbacks, pay-offs, and other sundry dealings involving officials from the Mormon State were exposed under the previous IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch; he was forced out and so were dozens of Olympic bureaucrats. Salt Lake got to keep the Games, however...