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Re: Boycott the Olympics
Posted By: Adam Bomb, on host 24.124.73.2
Date: Monday, December 17, 2001, at 14:26:49
In Reply To: Re: Boycott the Olympics posted by Grishny on Monday, December 17, 2001, at 13:29:52:

> > I thought the Olympics were an international
> competition where the best athletes from all
> over the world convene in one major city every
> four years to show the world their athletic
> talent.
>
> Actually, it's every two years now. They divvied
> it up so that they don't have winter and
> summer games all in one year any more.
> There are winter games every four years and
> summer games every four years, but they
> alternate so that there is one or the other
> going on every two. This year is winter games
> in SLC.
>
> I think they started doing that with the winter
> games of '94. I seem to remember there
> being both winter and summer games in '92.
> Anyone know for certain?
>
> Gri"wonders how the Utahns will open the
> games"shny

I knew that.

I was referring to either Winter or Summer, you decide which.

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