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Olympics – medal winners and balls-ups

If you don’t care about the medal winners, there are always the balls-ups.

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4th August, 2012

The greatest show on earth begins this weekend. For the next fortnight there will be an element of truth in Samuel Johnson’s assertion that “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life”. The Olympic Games have something for everyone. Well, almost everyone: when the Berlin Wall came down, they were shorn of their geopolitical dimension. For four decades the Games were a front in the Cold War: Team Democratic Capitalism versus Team Totalitarian Socialism, and may the superior system prevail. By fair means or foul. The Press sisters, Tamara and Irina, won five gold medals for the ...

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