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- A Perfect Olympics -- If You Stayed in Your Lane
- www.washingtonpost.com - Added:August 24, 2008
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- I'm not sure how good Thomas Boswell's geopolitical analysis is, but this is a nice column about what an Olympics in China is really like: "As sports spectacles go, I've never seen one more efficiently or soulessly executed than this one. I have no idea where they put the real people for 17 days..."
- International Olympic Committee launches probe into He Kexin's age
- www.timesonline.co.uk - Added:August 21, 2008
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- A complete look at issues surrounding the age limits and controversy of China's gold-medal winning female gymnast.
- McCain Takes Lead Over Obama
- news.aol.com - Added:August 20, 2008
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- Advertising - Olympics Draw High Percentage of Women Viewers, and Ads Intended for Them
- www.nytimes.com - Added:August 19, 2008
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- This article explains why I haven't been making Olympic TV time a priority -- the programming strategy is about making sports into some kind of "chick-flick" and pandering to all the women by offering ads for ways to improve ourselves with cosmetics while filling our children with junk food.
- Why are beach-volleyball players always patting each other on the butt?
- www.slate.com - Added:August 18, 2008
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- Ruminating on one of the great philosophical conundrums of 2008: Is beach volleyball really an Olympic sport?
- How are swimmers smashing so many Olympic records? - Los Angeles Times
- www.latimes.com - Added:August 14, 2008
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- John Wilcockson: The pros finally embrace Olympic cycling
- www.velonews.com - Added:August 14, 2008
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- Wilcockson is one the top international cycling writers. He writes about the ascendency of cycling at the Beijing Olympics.
- Low-drag suit propels swimmers - Physics Today August 2008
- ptonline.aip.org - Added:August 14, 2008
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- The science and technology of the new full-body Speedo swimsuit. Is it technological doping?
- Grace, Pathos and Ethics Mix in Gymnastics Final
- www.washingtonpost.com - Added:August 13, 2008
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- A terrific Thomas Boswell column about women's gymnastics, Olympic ethics, and the perils of athletic self-awareness.
- China Officials Give Up On Censoring World, Settle For Their Own Citizens
- www.mediabistro.com - Added:August 12, 2008
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- If a Chinese reporter has his camera and tape recorder taken away at the press conference about the stabbing of an Olympic visitor, does that mean the (alleged) murder did not happen?