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Reader Mail
Jul 19, 2012

BBC's Olympics commentary

A word of explanation is owed to foreign observers of the upcoming Olympics in London (July 27 to Aug. 12). During the last Commonwealth Games, some non-Britons were puzzled as to why the BBC often referred to medal winners as "proud Scots" or "proud Welsh" etc., while English winners were always "British."...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Mar 2, 2010

What will you remember about the Vancouver Olympics?

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Mar 28, 2009

Practicing for the Olympics

My grandmother used to reminisce about spending the first five minutes of Spanish class practicing rolling her r's. My grandmother would be proud — the ESL classroom doesn't just spend five minutes on English pronunciation, we spend an entire class on it.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 31, 2008

Results in Beijing prove that baseball has a place in Olympics

After watching that cliff-hanging, nail-biter, barn-burner of a victory by South Korea over Cuba in the gold medal game at the Beijing Olympics, I am more convinced than ever that baseball — and softball — belong in the Games.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ROAD
Jul 6, 2008

Nissan stages own 'Olympics' to get ahead in hard times

Imagine you are a marketing mogul at one of Japan's big carmakers. Your job is to get the world's motoring press driving your cars, generate international exposure and spread the word about your company's products. And right now car sales are plummeting in many countries as rising oil prices hit consumers...
SOCCER
Jun 18, 2008

Man Utd's Park to skip Olympics

SEOUL (AP) Manchester United's Park Ji Sung will not be selected for the South Korea football team for the Beijing Olympic Games.
EDITORIALS
Jul 8, 2007

The Olympics and the Putin factor

The International Olympic Committee has awarded the right to stage the 2014 Winter Olympic Games to the Black Sea resort of Sochi. It was the Russian city's first candidacy for the right. At present, its athletic facilities are almost nonexistent. It presented an innovative plan to combine ice-related...

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