Are we to believe two multi-medalists used the new drug this year, but that nobody used the old version either at Salt Lake City or in the Summer Olympics two years ago in Sydney?
If Australians agree, their first president could be in office in time to open the Sydney Olympics in 2000, or at least to lead the celebrations likely to be quite a party the following year for the centenary of the Australian nation, marking the coming together in 1901 of a federation of British colonies once used as a dumping-ground for convicts from the motherland.
The rules grow even stricter whenever the government is staging a high-profile event, such as the Beijing Olympics in 2008 or the Shanghai Expo in 2010.
Many of those on his list did not attend or were in London attending the Olympics.
But, if it is even roughly right, it would mean that the PPI scandal will rival or surpass the Olympics in its short-term impact on UK national output.
The men's 50km event has been staged in either freestyle or classical at all 20 editions of the Winter Olympics since the inaugural Games of 1924, and this was the first time the Scandinavians failed to make the podium.
Although games in one form or another had almost certainly been held earlier, tradition maintains that the first proper Olympics took place in 776 BC at Olympia in the Greek Peleponnese -- hence the competition's name.
The group, which began surveying in 2005, hoped to count one million additional people playing sports three times or more per week by this year, in time for the Olympics.
"I was involved in Manchester bids for the Olympics for 13 or 14 years and it was decided some time ago that the BOA would go with a bid by London, " he had said.
From that point of view, the failure of the Beijing Olympics to bring any of the promised (or more accurately, hoped-for) changes in China's policy towards dissent was probably the biggest disappointment of 2008.
In 1948, London hosted the Summer Olympics, or the "Austerity Games, " as they were called for their postwar frugality and prudence.
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No current British or Irish athletics competitor - that is, a cyclist, track and field athlete or swimmer - made the top 100 in the year of the London Olympics.
Mr. BURFOOT: Well, the major difference is that the U.S. has long believed in a trial by fire, which is you have to go Eugene, you have to finish in the top three or you don't go to the Olympics.
Some might wish, or fear, that the tumult of this Olympics year will set in motion a Soviet-style collapse of authority.
However sumptuous or slick the Olympics, it is far from being the only game in town.
Being the Olympics, there was little or no time to ease myself in.
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The Fosbury Flop is a high jump technique named after Dick Fosbury in the 1968 Olympics where most people were using a scissor technique or a straddle technique to get a high jump.
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We do see multitudes of youth taking part in causes, such as leaving school and work to volunteer in aid of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake victims, or volunteering to support the 2008 Beijing Olympics or the 2010 Shanghai Expo.
Rose wants to get involved with larger, more complicated international shipments: delivering the staging for the Beijing Olympics, helping set up satellite-receiver stations in remote locations or moving entire factories.
"There is no reason to expect that the Olympics, or any mega-event, is going to induce a sustainable boost in the economy, " he said.
But it must also raise finance, either private or public, for its grand infrastructure plans, made more urgent by hosting the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016.
Hunt pointed out that 64% of the GB team in Canada are competing at their first Olympics, and 17% are 21 or under.
Unless you win in a sport like tennis, no one will know or care about you or your sport 6 months after the Olympics.
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