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Sat 07 Jul 2008No security but certainly no shortage of spirit
ON ATHLETICS:For the Olympics, there is often no difference between the bravery of those who make it and that of those who don't, writes Ian O'Riordan.
HUNTER S THOMPSON would have turned 71 yesterday, had he not shot himself in the head on a wintry evening in Colorado three years ago. For someone who had championed the words of the poet Dylan Thomas - rage, rage, against the dying of the light - and never once lost his youthful spirit it was a sad and lonesome end.
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