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...athletes and their coaches free trips to Sydney? You quickly run out of space at the Olympic Village. To compensate for the high cost of getting Down Under, the organizers of the Sydney Games offered to pay air fares for all athletes and officials who planned to attend. A record number accepted. More than 11,100 athletes are participating in the Sydney Games, up from the 10,310 who showed up in Atlanta in 1996. But the Village was designed to house only 10,200 athletes, so officials had to scramble to add beds, doubling and tripling up people...
...Indeed, with a record 199 competing nations present, the night's real stars were the athletes: from the lone representative of Brunei Darussalam to the 628-strong Australian team. Relaxed in their ocher-colored car coats and slinging toy kangaroos into the crowd, the Australians basked in the warmest applause. But beyond the nationalism there was much goodwill - toward the four athletes from East Timor, parading for the first time since their homeland's independence, as were teams from Eritrea, Palau and Micronesia. Even more stirring was the standing ovation given to the North and South Korean athletes, who, although...
...Round 1 went to Australia: a brutal punch thrown by Thorpe at 400 meteer. In his specialty race, Thorpe lowered his world record and won by something just under a week (actually, by 2.81 seconds, with a time of 3:40.59). Round 2 was just as large a mismatch in the women's 4 x 100-m freestyle relay. Australia, after starting hot, cooled to sixth. The U.S. set a world record, and anchor Jenny Thompson, in superb form, won her sixth Olympic gold medal, moving ahead of speed skater Bonnie Blair for most golds ever by an American woman...
...American women set yet another world record in their 4 X 100 race, one of five world marks set tonight. No one has said it yet, but this may just be the beginning of the fastest Olympics in history. And while most of the credit goes to the athletes, even they know that the Australian crowd is like an invisible propeller to help them catch their dreams...
...same, the First Amendment does not guarantee minors the right to purchase the same material that adults can. The FTC report suggested that more retailers should not let kids buy stickered CDs and video games, just as teens are barred from NC-17 films. This would allow record labels and video-game makers to release whatever they please, and adults to buy it and even pass it on to their kids if they thought that was O.K. But that's a prospect that makes entertainment executives nervous, since the market for the raunchiest and most belligerent pop culture is made...