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...this was Athens, not Baghdad, and it was the first overt signal that these next two weeks may really be about sport, not war. The raucous scene on Omonia Square in downtown Athens turned out to be simply a bunch of Iraqi soccer fans celebrating the surprise victory of their team in a preliminary round of the Olympic Games. They chanted for a while, joyous smiles disarming any who felt threatened, and after a few minutes, peacefully rambled off down a side street...
...from the International Olympic Committee down are more committed than ever to a clean-up. But there are still signs that many in power don't know what they're up against. Fifty-eight athletes have failed drug tests during Olympic competition since 1972, but almost everyone acquainted with sport believes those 58 are a tiny fraction of the guilty. Anonymous polling has shown consistently that, as long as they think they won't be caught, most athletes would use drugs even with a high risk of side effects. In the lead-up to the Sydney Games, I studied...
...been this way for a while: before we see the athletes soar we must first watch them squirm. This time, Australia's pre-Olympics scandal centered on whether five of its male cyclists had injected themselves with banned substances in room 121 at the Australian Institute of Sport cycling facility in Adelaide last year. The five were cleared last month by an investigation headed by a former judge. One of them, Sean Eadie, faced a separate charge of importing human growth hormone (hGH) from the U.S. in the late '90s. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled there was insufficient...
...hurts, yes. My Olympic memories begin in 1972, with black-and-white images of Shane Gould and Beverley Whitfield, Australian champions of the pool, and snippets of overwrought Norman May commentary. Right up to early adulthood, each Games fired imaginings absurdly beyond my reach. So I settled for sports writing, which I did exclusively for 11 years. It was during that time, interviewing hundreds of athletes and observing in many of them the same traits - tunnel vision, self-absorption, extreme determination - that I realized how far from purity sport had traveled. Most disturbing were the attitudes of some coaches...
...from the International Olympic Committee down are more committed than ever to a clean-up. But there are still signs that many in power don't know what they're up against. Fifty-eight athletes have failed drug tests during Olympic competition since 1972, but almost everyone acquainted with sport believes those 58 are a tiny fraction of the guilty. Anonymous polling has shown consistently that, as long as they think they won't be caught, most athletes would use drugs even with a high risk of side effects. In the lead-up to the Sydney Games, I studied...