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The extinct Olympic sport that was the 'dullest' of all time
BBC News· 35 minutes agoIn the plunge for distance, any form of exertion was strictly forbidden. The champion takes a deep breath into his well-padded frame, and gently tips himself, arms outstretched ...
A City of Light and Shadows Is Redrawn for the Olympics
New York Times· 40 minutes agoThere is a glorious folly to the Paris Olympics, the first in the city since 1924, as if France in its perennial revolutionary ardor took a century to ponder something unimaginable, the transformation ...