Word: fun
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Many Canadian athletes say they're thrilled just to go to the Olympics and will happily settle for a "personal best." Brunet doesn't toe that party line. "The Canadian way is to think, 'O.K., go out, do your best and have fun,'" she says. "For me it's not enough to go to the Olympics to participate. I'm never satisfied...
...while daydreaming during an economics lecture--and haven't we all?--in 1998 that China's Olympic poster girl realized that diving could actually be fun. She missed the water, the exhilaration of soaring through the air and sliding into the tank with barely a ripple. "Taking a break took the pressure off diving," she says. "It made me realize that I loved the sport and that I could do it on my own terms...
...stupidest sport of all, despite the teasing the synchers get, may be race walking. If the event were held at the Sydney Mall and restricted to the over-60 set, it might be fun to watch. But instead it's young people jogging and pretending to walk. And that looks really, really stupid. Even Debbi Lawrence, a world-record holder in the grueling 1,500 m, knows her sport is a little weird. "It looks funny, it feels funny, and it wasn't an Olympic sport when I started doing it," she says. Which was probably at 13 months...
...horror for those who like to make fun of new dumb sports is that the I.O.C. has eliminated the exhibition-sport category and is planning to cut, not add, new events. That means artistic roller skating probably won't make the cut. Artistic skating is a lot like figure skating, but it's done on '70s-style quad roller skates and to even worse music. How can that not be a sport at an Olympics in which Olivia Newton-John is performing at the opening ceremonies? There is no justice when Mr. Samaranch is in charge...
...need to take a break from the affairs of state and kick back. But they don't have to write a report about it when summer is over. An in-depth analysis, however, of the frolicsome activities of the class of 2000 shows that even while they're having fun, the Big Guys are still hard at work...