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Transcript: Frank Deford Decries `Jingoism' at the Olympics
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- July 31, 1996
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Frank Deford discusses Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson, calling Lewis
the ``single greatest track and field athlete of all time,'' and saying
Johnson looks like he's coasting when he's saving himself.
BOB EDWARDS, Host: The U.S. has captured the first-ever Olympic gold
medal in softball. The team beat China three-to-one last night in
Columbus, Georgia, behind a four-hitter by pitchers Michele Granger
[sp] and Lisa Fernandez [sp]. But the win did not come without controversy.
Dot Richardson's [sp] decisive two-run homer in the third inning
curved just inside the right field foul pole- just outside the pole,
according to the Chinese, whose protest delayed ...