Word: coldness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...next afternoon at the boxing quarterfinals, there was a moment when I realized the Cold War is not only history, it's cold history. In the space of a half hour I saw Jeff Lacy, the American armed robber turned 165-pound contender, stopped by a Russian, then our 201-pound ex-con, Michael Bennett, stopped by the brilliant Cuban, Felix Savon. The crowd was very evenhanded and it wasn't until I was on my way out that I realized I had just watched two of our guys lose to a Russian and a Cuban. We used...
...wasn't the only case that brought tears, either. Did you hear about the 16-year-old Romanian gymnast Andrea Raducan? She had to give back a gold medal because she took cold medicine for the sniffles - medicine a coach had given her. "We have applied the law," said IOC director general Fran?ois Carrard. "In the fight against doping we have to be tough and refrain from emotions and feelings." Sometimes that's hard...
...routine-you know the smile that accompanies the pose that looks vaguely like the pee-pee dance?) Of course, the IOC being the vigilant, honest folk that they are, immediately drug test little Andreea after she wins. And it's discovered with much fanfare that she took-gasp!-cold pills. Gone is her medal, her pride and most certainly her smile. Couldn't the IOC focus their attention somewhere else? Leave the 3'2" girl alone. First you take her height, than you take her medals. All because of a runny nose...
Focusing on supply rather than demand, production rather than consumption, and above all oil, oil, oil, George W. Bush was in in Saginaw, Mich. (where folks certainly know something about cold winters and heating oil), on Friday to unveil his energy policy in an address. The theme: Want cheaper oil? Elect an oilman...
...easily detectable; if they had some more time or money they could find a doctor who knows how to manipulate results. In the case of the young Romanian gold-medallist gymnast, she was duped by her doctor, who had put some banned drugs (not even performance-enhancing) in her cold medicine. But, as IOC drug czar Prince Alexandre de Merode pointed out, rules are rules...