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Article: Era of Good Feeling Hits Olympic Heights
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- The Washington Post
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- February 13, 1988
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Perhaps I'm being premature. By the time these words are
digested and this section becomes comfy bedding for hamsters,
international hell may have broken loose at the XV Winter Olympics.
It almost always does. Still, the tingly feeling here is that an
outbreak of sporting peace and goodwill is at hand. For the first
time in a generation, the global sandbox is quiet. All everybody
seems to want to do, on the eve of the opening ceremonies, is play.
Naive readers and those who only follow athletic torches every
four years may be bewildered. Aren't the Olympics, summer and
winter, the absolute essence of harmony and pure sport?
They are not.
The International Olympic Committee and, to a ...