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- Can the Olympics help give sport back to the people?
Our challenge is not just the pursuit of excellence. It's about spreading athletic activity throughout society.
It is upon us. The greatest sporting event in the world, of course, but also the greatest single media event and, more questionably, a huge political event too. China is using the Olympic Games, denied to the country after the catastrophe of Tiananmen Square in 1989, to display its competence, ambition and economic might to the world. If the show it is putting on is not quite Berlin 1936, it is not the cut-price games of Atlanta 1996 either. - Expect a Summer Games
BEIJING -- While few were noticing -- perhaps because it is impossible to see much through the milky white cloud that passes for air here -- some people were engaged in the activity that is the presumed essence of the Olympic Games.
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