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    <title><![CDATA[Want to Sire an Olympic hopeful?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:34:58 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Published by dianavb on 26. Feb 2002 17:34:58
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The "LA Times" <http://www.latimes.com> has another Olympics story, called "Want
to Sire an Olympic Hopeful?..."
<http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-000014663feb26.story> (Want to Sire an Olympic
Hopeful? Talk to Gene.), with a humorous look at creating your very own Olympic
athlete that you can cheer for in some embarassing way that NBC will be sure to
zoom in on way too close and broadcast to the nation for what seems like several
painfully long minutes.

<q>The Olympic Games depress me, so I am glad they are over. I don't need to be
reminded every four winters that I married a woman who comes from a family of
oafs, which wasn't capable of producing a gifted athlete, thereby making my
children too uncoordinated to win a medal. ... It's not my fault, of course,
because I was young and seduced by this woman, never knowing it would end my
Olympic dreams.</q>

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    <title><![CDATA[A Toast to a Host With the Most]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:48:37 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Published by dianavb on 25. Feb 2002 16:48:37
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Steven Bradbury: A mastermind in the sport of short-track speedskating, he was
well-positioned in the men's 1,000 final, way behind the pack, waiting patiently
for the other four competitors to wipe out so he could cruise home for the gold.
My kind of Olympic champion. The wily Aussie is now forever a part of the
sporting lexicon: Whenever an athlete succeeds through nothing more than dumb
luck, it's now called "pulling a Bradbury."

Wayne Gretzky: He snubbed Patrick Roy, he left Joe Thornton off the roster, he
acted like a crazy man during Team Canada news conferences, he wound up winning
the gold medal. He pulled a Bradbury.

The LA Times article, "A Toast to a Host With the Most"
<http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-000014412feb25.story> has some nice Olympic
recaps.

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