So, I’m walking out of the press seating area in the arena to go fetch my computer in the work room … when this really preppy guy in a dark blue blazer walks right up to me and says .. “Are there any American reporters in here?!?” Like, with some urgency. (And why did he […]

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Judo! I thought I had, in some prior life. Knocking out a “hometowner” for some paper in the sprawling Gannett News Service empire, at a previous Olympics. Then they started competing in the gym at the Beijing University of Science and Technology … and I know for a fact I have never seen this. No […]

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