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...chatted with Chu en route from Steamboat Springs, Colo., to her home for the next few weeks, the Olympic park in Salt Lake City, Utah. There, alongside veteran hockey teammate Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04, she will compete for Olympic gold...
When Chu’s family members (including her hockey-crazed grandmother) travel to Utah, they will bring more than posters and pompoms to cheer her on. The Chus all now sport tattoos, a permanent emblem of their enthusiasm and support. “They got the Olympic rings in color, and the number 13, which is my number,” Chu says...
...recent report in “Sports Illustrated” showed how the Utah congressional delegation was able, in concert with other Representatives, Senators and the White House, to appropriate tens of millions of dollars from the federal budget for the Salt Lake Games between 1995-2000. They fleeced the taxpayers, the report claims, because much of this expenditure was unnecessary from the federal level in light of how much was spent on the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, which was a much larger event. In any case, the report adds to the growing mountain of evidence of wrongdoing. Right...
...almost heartwarming level of cooperation among security agencies known for being fiercely territorial. The Secret Service may be calling the shots, but more than 60 federal, state and local organizations are working together in Salt Lake City, and ad hoc multi-agency task forces with heavy-duty acronyms--the Utah Olympic Public Safety Command (UOPSC), the Olympic Joint Terrorism Task Force (OJTTF)--are thick on the ground. More than 15,000 federal, state and local personnel will watch over the Games, among them 1,900 members of Utah's National Guard--the largest single call-up in the state...
...January; sales have already smashed the record set in Nagano. If Team USA gets the job done here, these Games will become the blue-print for securing high-profile events in a post-World Trade Center world. "This has become a training ground for national security," Utah's Republican Senator Orrin Hatch says proudly. "They're writing the rules here." Let's hope they work. Unlike most Olympic athletes, terrorists aren't known for playing by the rules...