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Olympics

2004

• August 25 -- A Sportswriter's Stretching Exercises In Support of Title IX
Selena Roberts' column on the Olympic triumphs of the U.S. women's soccer team uses team members as props for her own support of the federal mandate Title IX.

• January 27 -- Communist East Germany's "Social Safety Net"
A fascinating story on state-sponsored doping of Olympic athletes in Communist East Germany includes this dubious line on the fall of the Berlin Wall: "Retired, unemployed, the social safety net of her country no longer available to soften her fall after reunification…."

 

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