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...keeps coming back to score more Olympic pins, the collectibles that started as cardboard identity discs at the first modern Games, in Athens in 1896. For Braun, collecting is a way to make friends, a hobby that crosses social and cultural boundaries. In 1988, on the streets of Seoul, he says, he traded with Prince Albert of Monaco...
...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...
Sydney will be her fourth Olympics, but the first in which she is a favorite. At Seoul in 1988, as a shy 19-year-old, she was 13th. "When I think back, I was soooo naive," she laughs. In 1992 she improved and finished seventh...
...cheating if everybody else is doing it." So declared Canadian track coach Charlie Francis in 1988 when his sprinter Ben Johnson became the Olympics' highest-profile disqualification ever by testing positive for steroids. But of 8,465 competitors at Seoul, only Johnson and nine others were booted for drugs. What's this about "everybody...
Good question, tough answer. You can be sure that many more than 10 athletes used banned substances in Seoul, and many more than 10 will use them in Sydney. Beyond that, there's little certainty. As you watch the events on the tube, you will have no way of knowing if you are seeing a clean or dirty event, a real athletic competition or a duel between pharmacists...