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Insights: Sports—Do the Olympics Still Matter?
Reeling from scandal, the international games adapt to a tarnished image
George Vecsey
From the Print Edition:
Bo Derek, Jul/Aug 00
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Thomas Swick, the travel writer of the Sun-Sentinel of South Florida, visited Sydney nearly a year ago and wrote, "I was all ready for the litany of meaningless figures and environmental concerns, the biennial crash course in statistics and ecology." Instead, Swick was charmed to discover that official Australian guides were filling him in on ticket scandals, political scandals and building scandals.
We may need all this down-under Lettermanism if the network lays on the old-fashioned Olympic blather. But maybe we will thumb our noses at the leaders, but retain respect for the athletes themselves.
At very least, these Internet Games could produce a renaissance in the lost art of reading. How bad could that be?
George Vecsey, sports columnist for The New York Times, will be covering his fifth Summer Games at Sydney.
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