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...hurts, yes. My Olympic memories begin in 1972, with black-and-white images of Shane Gould and Beverley Whitfield, Australian champions of the pool, and snippets of overwrought Norman May commentary. Right up to early adulthood, each Games fired imaginings absurdly beyond my reach. So I settled for sports writing, which I did exclusively for 11 years. It was during that time, interviewing hundreds of athletes and observing in many of them the same traits - tunnel vision, self-absorption, extreme determination - that I realized how far from purity sport had traveled. Most disturbing were the attitudes of some coaches...
...hurts, yes. My Olympic memories begin in 1972, with black-and-white images of Shane Gould and Beverley Whitfield, Australian champions of the pool, and snippets of overwrought Norman May commentary. Right up to early adulthood, each Games fired imaginings absurdly beyond my reach. So I settled for sports writing, which I did exclusively for 11 years. It was during that time, interviewing hundreds of athletes and observing in many of them the same traits - tunnel vision, self-absorption, extreme determination - that I realized how far from purity sport had traveled. Most disturbing were the attitudes of some coaches...
...TRIATHLON Samantha McGlone, Otterburn Park, Que. Brent McMahon, Victoria, B.C. Carol Montgomery, North Vancouver Jill Savege, Penticton, B.C. Simon Whitfield, Kingston...
...came to ask whether he would be willing to confess his falsehoods. "I did not tell half of what I saw," Marco replied. Nearly 800 years after the Polos made their epic journeys along the Silk Road, the romance of this historic trade route has hardly dissipated. Dr. Susan Whitfield, curator of the British Library's new exhibition, "The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith," is aware of the beguiling quality of her subject and seeks to ground it. "I want people to leave with a knowledge that the Silk Road is not a faraway, exotic place," she says...
...Though the exhibition, which has been five years in the making, brings together pieces from museums such as the Mus?e Guimet in Paris, the Museum of Indian Art in Berlin, the Miho Museum in Tokyo and the British Library's own extensive collection of artifacts, the inspiration comes from Whitfield's extensive studies of early Chinese history over the past two decades. "As I worked more and more in China," Whitfield says, "I realized what a debt medieval China owed to the Silk Road and to the influences coming in on the Silk Road...