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...felt good. To immerse oneself in this perfect snow-globe universe of skis and skates and sleds, finish lines and stopwatches and scorecards, was to live in a smaller, more manageable world than had seemed possible before the torch was lit, in this winter of Afghanistan and Enron...
...estimated three billion television viewers who tuned in to the opening ceremony saw quite a show. Watching the members of the 1980 U.S. men’s hockey team gather to light the Olympic torch tingled the nerves of all who remember their memorable victory against the Soviet Union. The players recreated their famous medal-stand pose, but this time, they reached for the Olympic flame rather than a gold medal. For those of us who are too young to remember the game, it was dramatic to see the team that accomplished the “Miracle on Ice?...
Even when the 3 1/2-hr. show ended by letting Mike Eruzione and his entire Soviet-beating 1980 U.S. "miracle on ice" hockey team light the torch--reminding the world, once again, how we won the cold war--it felt O.K. Sure, it might have been even nicer to let Eruzione light it with Slava Fetisov, the great Soviet captain and current Russian coach whom he beat. That could have made for a nice demonstration of post-cold war togetherness. But why try to kid anybody? If global events after Sept. 11 proved anything, it's that...
...Olympic torch burned its way from Olympia to Atlanta, then started winding toward Salt Lake, the ground began to warm. The flame will travel 13,500 miles by dogsled and wheelchair and snowshoe and tennis shoe and tugboat. Rudy Giuliani carried it, exempted from the organizing committee's rule against elected officials as torchbearers. Lyz Glick, widow of Jeremy, a hero of Flight 93, carried it, along with 11,498 others, through frigid streets lined with cheering people--and that was just for the torch...
...downside of staying in Salt Lake is that Kwan will be dogged by the one question she doesn't want to answer - "So, are you going to win the gold?" Lance Armstrong, one of the torch relay bearers in the Opening Ceremony stadium, has already asked. Kwan's only answer - "No comment...