I’ve been to 13 Olympics. Have I mentioned that? Oh, I have. And one of the human-behavioral realities you can count on … almost set your watch by … is the breakdown of discipline by just about everyone involved with the Games in the final hours, before and after Closing Ceremonies.

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I actually did something in Beijing that had nothing to do with sports. Which is the upside to staying here one full day after the torch was doused.

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Nothing taxes sports journalists the way an Olympics does. Nothing. The Super Bowl, Final Four, World Series, World Cup … none of them compare. The Olympics lasts seemingly forever — three weeks, counting the run-up to Opening. It’s results, results, results everydamnday — no days off for travel, or rest, whatever. It’s enormous — 302 […]

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The guys at madmariner.com, which bills itself as the internet’s “daily sailing newspaper” … commissioned a wrapup story on the U.S. Sailing effort here at the Beijing Olympics. The sailors were down at Qingdao, 300 miles away, and the Yanks managed only a gold and a silver, which apparently has agitated some folks in the […]

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