I know athletes are disappointed when they lose.  Especially in the marginally popular Olympic sports — and women’s freestyle wrestling certainly falls into that category. A lot of these guys and girls have been training four years — or a lifetime, really — to get here, and their minds are filled with images of standing […]

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Great Britain was huge in the founding of the Olympic Games, right there with Baron de Coubertin, the French aristocrat who revived the Games back in 1996. The Brits did quite nicely for the first 36 years or so, when Olympic sports were still mostly gentlemen’s games. (Remember And then more professional-type athletes took over, […]

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The 10-plus days I’ve been here, we’ve had two types of weather. Rain. And smog-choked gloom. Ten consecutive days of one or the other. In both meteorogical conditions, the sun was basically a rumor. At best, making a short appearance before going behind the clounds (or gunk) again. Imagine my surprise when I walked outside […]

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