Marcie Van Dusen is fun. She is the Official Live Wire of the U.S. women’s Olympic wrestling team. And probably its best hope for a medal here at Beijing, too. This is the journalism part of the Olympics. When you go talk to athletes you know and write about them. And the “where” doesn’t matter […]

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That appalling rip job the U.S. Olympic Committee did on four of its own cyclists on Wednesday was something fitting for a totalitarian state. Like, say, the one I’m sitting in right now. Instant discipline, and then a forced apology. I wonder if any of the four cyclists — which includes Sarah Hammer, a Temecula […]

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The most ridiculous thing I’ve heard since I got here? A guy from the U.S. archery federation — on the day that the U.S. Olympic Committee was backing away from the hint of a suggestion of a notion that the air here is filthy — saying the atmosphere really isn’t that bad. This on a […]

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I’ve got to get to the bottom of this. Here at the Main Press Center, and also at the media hotel at which I am staying, signs are posted asking bathroom patrons to put soiled toilet tissue … in a waste can next to the toilet. No paper is supposed to go down the toilet. […]

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Well, that wasn’t one of the more noble moments in U.S. Olympic Committee history. The men who lead the Olympic movement in the land of the free and the home of the brave … turned against four American cyclists who had the temerity to wear masks in the Beijing airport on Tuesday. It seemed a […]

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