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Winter Olympics Open In Salt Lake City With A Debt And A PrayerFEBRUARY 8, 2002 · 12:23
The Games were awarded to a city that did not have the venues, which built them in eighteen months, and the athletes' village, which was not finished. Both facts are likely to appear in the first paragraph of every retrospective written about this sport.
THE CEREMONY. THE FIRE WENT OUT TWICE, WHICH EVERYBODY NOTICED.
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THE CEREMONY. THE FIRE WENT OUT TWICE, WHICH EVERYBODY NOTICED.
SALT LAKE CITY, February 8 -- The Winter Olympics opened this evening in a city that built its ski jump in eighteen months and hosted an athletics event in a field.
There are 2,500 athletes from 78 nations competing in 15 sports over 17 days. The United States and Germany have between them won more medals than the rest of the world put together, which is a sentence that will be repeated in every language in this building.
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BATHTUBINGFAIL
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· Bath (yes) · 2 minutes later
BATHTUBINGFAIL wrote:
i would like it on the record that i read this entire article while eating a sandwich and that the sandwich wa... unrelated but has anyone else's bird learned the emergency broadcast tone? because mine has and i would like to talk about it
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BuffaloWildWingsFan87
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· Buffalo, NY · an hour later
i have been a season ticket holder since 1991 and i am not going to say it in here because of the children reading this thread
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caturday
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· caturday · same afternoon
caturday wrote:
Winter Olympics Open In Salt Lake City With A Debt And A Prayer i would like it on the record that i read this entire article while eating a sandwich and that the sandwich was excellent
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crimson_tide_fan_1998
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· Birmingham, AL · that evening
MY TEAM. MY TEAM. WHO ELSE. EVERYBODY. WE ARE THE BEST AND YOU KNOW IT.
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m00nbeam
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· the woods · the next morning
the umpires were blind and everybody in that stadium knows it, write to your congressperson
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