Olympics Winter Olympics 2002 Retrospective Salt Lake City Utah
Outside the Olympic sphere, I am a man who reads four newspapers a day religiously. While in Utah, I skimmed a few sports pages and spent most of my time reading bio sheets on Slovenian bobsledders, Lithuanian ice dancers and Belarussian hockey players. As a result I am now a reservoir of Olympic minutiae, desperately in need of a purge. It is a pathos that is shared only by my reporting brethren at the Games....