| Jan 2002 | Jan 30, 2002 - By Mihir Bose. THE Olympic spirit is so barely visible in Salt Lake City that when I arrived here two days ago, I thought for a moment I had arrived in the wrong city. Indeed, there were no signs at the airport that the Games are actually being held. Meanwhile, organisers here are ... www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2429647/Winter-Olympics-Salt-Lake-struggling-to-keep- Sydney-spirit-afloat.html
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| Feb 2002 | Feb 4, 2002 - By Amy C. Sims. NEW YORK — Since Sept. 11 the world has come together to battle terror — and when the nations unite again this month for the Winter Olympic Games, security will be tighter than ever to keep the peaceful celebration of athletics safe. An average of 70000-80000 visitors ... www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,44653,00.html
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| Feb 7, 2002 - By Mihir Bose. SALT LAKE CITY could be hosting the last Olympics, summer or winter, in the United States for 20 years, according to well placed IOC sources. Although New York could bid for the 2012 summer games - Houston, San Francisco, Washington-Baltimore are also competing - such is ... www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2430206/Winter-Olympics-Frosty-atmosphere-as-IOC-members-take-exception -to-American-vulgarity.html
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| Feb 10, 2002 - By Mike Rowbottom in Salt Lake City. As it turned out, there was only one bad moment during the opening of the 19th Winter Games here. It came when the Olympic flame, sent climbing towards its high cauldron by the United States ice-hockey team who vanquished the Soviets back in 1980, ... www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/winter-olympics-games-of-celebration-and-remembrance-660154. html
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| Feb 13, 2002 - "Now, of course, you wouldn't get the Winter Olympics would you?" said the hitherto delightful and charming PR woman. "You Brits aren't very good at sport." It stung. So much for my "Oh, who cares about Salt Lake City?" whining. I'd show her, though. I'd get that Olympic spirit. ... www.guardian.co.uk/media/2002/feb/13/comment1
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| Feb 16, 2002 - By Robert Sullivan Saturday, Feb. 16, 2002. The snowy hills and valleys of Utah represented the warmest place in America last week. Even when the wind blew cold, the fine sportsmanship and fellow feeling that is traditional to the Winter Games, lifted last week to an absurd height by ... www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,203479,00.html
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| Feb 18, 2002 - THERE is one very important reason why ice skating should, and will, remain in the Olympics. Money, writes Sandra Stevenson. Without the huge fees from television companies - particularly from North America - the Games would probaly not exist as we know them. ... www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2430403/Should-ice-skating-be-included-in-the-Winter-Olympics-.html
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| Feb 22, 2002 - By Mihir Bose. THE fallout from the Salt Lake skating scandal could result in big changes to future summer and winter Games. Sports such as boxing, rhythmic gymnastics and ski jumping - which all have an element of subjective judgement - may have to alter their judging systems. ... www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/4777758/Winter-Olympics-IOC-to-tell-sports-to-clean-up-their-act.html
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| Feb 24, 2002 - By Giles Smith. IN THE end, it snowed medals for Britain. Three medals, to be precise. But in the context of Britain's recent history as an award-winning nation at the Winter Games, that was an avalanche during a blizzard. Our brave women curlers were still unwinding when Alain Baxter ... www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/2431369/Winter-Olympics-on-TV-Push-for-funding-puts-party-on- ice.html
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| Mar 2002 | Mar 5, 2002 - By Tom Knight. ALAIN BAXTER faces being stripped of his slalom bronze medal after testing positive at the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. Baxter, 28, was protesting his innocence last night after it emerged that the urine sample he gave on becoming the first British skier to ... www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2431974/Winter-Olympics-Baxter-fights-to-prove-innocence.html
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