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Winter Olympics on slippery slope after Vancouver crackdown on homeless
Oversized neon Olympic rings illuminate Vancouver harbour while a giant mural of a snowboarder mid-trick welcomes ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Olympia-Entscheid: Republikaner feiern Obamas Chicago-Flop - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Sport
Er flog extra zum Werbeauftritt nach Kopenhagen, umwarb IOC-Delegierte - alles vergebens. Die überraschend ...Posted by Cynthia Gilbert -
Slide in economy pinches sports
"Everybody is adapting in different ways. The whole sport movement is trying to figure out how to operate more like ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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A gold medal in repression
There's a knock at the door. It's the police and they want to talk to you about your political affiliations. ...Posted by John Louden -
What's really inside those swimsuits?
One evening about a decade ago, I dined with one of America’s top swimmers. When we were deep into our second ...Posted by Beth Tucker
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Study: China neutralizes global media
() How did media cover the Olympics? Overwhelmingly as a sporting event rather than as a political power game. Prior ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Caught under a mountain of Olympic debt
() While the Olympics may be bringing publicity to Beijing, the Games are not making the city rich, at least in the ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
NBC coverage gives a narrow view of China
() Many journalists in China, including USA TODAY's Christine Brennan, have written about the sterile atmosphere on ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Olympic Ritual and Religion, Hosted by a Religion-less State
() One of the little remarked aspects of the Modern Olympic Games is its explicit status as a religious revival. The ...Posted by Evan Derkacz -
Beyond Beijing: China's Toughest Competition
() The most important reason to look beyond Beijing is simple: the Chinese regime realized from the start that ...Posted by Derek Hawkins
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