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New Zealand's Olympics-bound equestrian is accused of snorting coke and having unprotected gay sex.
By Jack Boulware
June 28, 2000
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If you want to go to the Games, you need lots of money and the ability to juggle basketball, sword fighting and that strangely "modern" pentathlon.
By Gary Kamiya
May 12, 2000
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Expert advice on cheap flights to Sydney, plus arranging a Tuscany tour and getting to the core of the Big Apple.
By Donald D. Groff
March 9, 2000
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They're ready to entertain Down Under.
By J.A. Getzlaff
March 9, 2000
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From the murder to a football star's pregnant girlfriend to the retirement of four sports icons, 1999 was a bad year to be a sports fan.
By Julian Rubinstein
December 23, 1999
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Lie detectors, all around! Plus: Tonya takes a another swipe; Bunny brothel honors Andy Kaufman, and the Spice Girls ... waxy but wickless.
By Amy Reiter
December 20, 1999
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A recent fund-raising endeavor has the Canberra-based women's team posing sans uniforms for a controversial calendar.
By Hank Hyena
December 6, 1999
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A Black September leader recalls the Munich Olympics.
By -- Craig Offman
May 10, 1999
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The L.A. Weekly gets spiritual; poo falls from the sky in Salt Lake City.
By Jenn Shreve
May 7, 1999
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Cintra Wilson on the Kwan-Lipinski showdown.
By Cintra Wilson
February 23, 1998
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Cintra Wilson watches the ladies' short figure skating program and asks: I sold my soul to the scalpers to watch these mechanized super-chicks kiss ass?
By Cintra Wilson
February 20, 1998
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Cintra Wilson's innocent search for the men's slalom turns into an amazing half-day odyssey.
By Cintra Wilson
February 20, 1998
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Lipinski upsets Kwan! Skating expert Christine Brennan on what happened on the ice in Nagano.
By Jonathan Broder
February 20, 1998
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Cintra Wilson reports from Nagano on scalpers, skiers
and cultural schizophrenia.
By Cintra Wilson
February 19, 1998
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A British investigative reporter who has
written about the International Olympic Committee shows how the head of the
IOC tries to prove, as he once said, that the IOC is more powerful than the
Catholic Church.
By Andrew Jennings
February 19, 1998
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While the television cameras focus on Olympic athletes
who seem impossibly young, and competitors in their late 20s are considered "over the hill," athletes 40 and over -- including some in their 90s -- are a growing presence on tracks and fields everywhere.
By Eve Pell
February 18, 1998
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Rinkside at the Czech-Russia match, Cintra Wilson suddenly understands the Christlike and redemptive powers of ice hockey.
By Cintra Wilson
February 18, 1998
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In Nagano, locals are grumbling about the license given Olympics sponsors to advertise all over town.
By Koya Ide
February 17, 1998
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In the fourth of his dispatches from the Winter Olympics in Nagano,
Japan, Gary Kamiya muses on Japanese English, the quest for tosto and
hamburgers done in retro
By Gary Kamiya
February 12, 1998
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In the second of his daily dispatches from the Olympic Games at Nagano, Gary Kamiya experiences the madness of the luge.
By Gary Kamiya
February 10, 1998
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What food will foreign athletes and spectators in Nagano get if they ask for the local specialty? Buckwheat noodles!
By Koji Yoshii
February 5, 1998
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Tracing Tonya Harding's descent from skating champion to wrestling manager, failed singer and video poker addict.
By Jane Meredith Adams
February 2, 1998
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Gary Kamiya reports live -- barely -- from the XVIII Winter
Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan
By Gary Kamiya
January 30, 1998
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A Swedish journalist explains why the greatest snowboarder refuses to compete at the Winter Olympics in Nagano.
By Tomas Jacobsson
January 26, 1998
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A December trip to Japan rekindles Gina Arnold's life-shaping Olympic obsessions.
By Gina Arnold
January 19, 1998