The Independent - London, July 7th, 1996
The most sports-saturated summer in living memory is hotting up: in less than two weeks' time, the 100th Olympic Games will open in Atlanta - perhaps the most extravagant sporting spectacle this planet has ever witnessed. Hundreds of millions will spend the rest of July absorbed in the drama, the passion, the single-minded pursuit of excellence. Yet sporting glory is only part of what is at stake. For many, greed, nationalism and politics will overshadow the traditional Olympic ideals. . Feminists will be pre-occupied with the increasingly bitter question of sexual discrimination among Moslem ...
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