Olympics

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  • Horseplay

    New Zealand's Olympics-bound equestrian is accused of snorting coke and having unprotected gay sex.
  • Olympian ticket trouble

    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.
  • Olympics or bust

    Expert advice on cheap flights to Sydney, plus arranging a Tuscany tour and getting to the core of the Big Apple.
  • Aussie prostitutes limber up for 2000 Olympics

    They're ready to entertain Down Under.
  • The hall of shame

    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.
  • Pants on fire

    Lie detectors, all around! Plus: Tonya takes a another swipe; Bunny brothel honors Andy Kaufman, and the Spice Girls ... waxy but wickless.
  • Full-frontal Aussie soccer babes

    A recent fund-raising endeavor has the Canberra-based women's team posing sans uniforms for a controversial calendar.
  • Terrorist tell-all

    A Black September leader recalls the Munich Olympics.
  • Millennial-time religion

    The L.A. Weekly gets spiritual; poo falls from the sky in Salt Lake City.
  • Tara and Michelle

    Cintra Wilson on the Kwan-Lipinski showdown.
  • Ice follies

    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?
  • Lost in Nagano

    Cintra Wilson's innocent search for the men's slalom turns into an amazing half-day odyssey.
  • Figure skating shocker

    Lipinski upsets Kwan! Skating expert Christine Brennan on what happened on the ice in Nagano.
  • Scalpers, skiers and cultural schizophrenia

    Cintra Wilson reports from Nagano on scalpers, skiers and cultural schizophrenia.
  • Newsreal: Bigger than the pope

    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.
  • Newsreal: Not over the hill

    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.
  • The Christlike and redemptive powers of ice hockey

    Rinkside at the Czech-Russia match, Cintra Wilson suddenly understands the Christlike and redemptive powers of ice hockey.
  • Plastered in Nagano

    In Nagano, locals are grumbling about the license given Olympics sponsors to advertise all over town.
  • Retro burger

    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
  • Apres moi, de luge

    In the second of his daily dispatches from the Olympic Games at Nagano, Gary Kamiya experiences the madness of the luge.
  • Soba, so good

    What food will foreign athletes and spectators in Nagano get if they ask for the local specialty? Buckwheat noodles!
  • Newsreal: Tonya's trials

    Tracing Tonya Harding's descent from skating champion to wrestling manager, failed singer and video poker addict.
  • Higher! Faster! Wetter!

    Gary Kamiya reports live -- barely -- from the XVIII Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan
  • Newsreal: Snowblind

    A Swedish journalist explains why the greatest snowboarder refuses to compete at the Winter Olympics in Nagano.
  • Olympics bound

    A December trip to Japan rekindles Gina Arnold's life-shaping Olympic obsessions.
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