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Sat 08 Aug 2008What chance London calling Smith and Carlos?
KEITH DUGGAN SIDELINE CUTThe Games just gone hammered home the truth that modern competitors' concerns do not extend beyond the all-consuming interest in they fare in their own sport
THE WORLD keeps turning. Many people stayed up late on Thursday night to watch Barack Obama addressing the world from the Mile High stadium in Denver. You watched this handsome, skinny black man spinning his wonderful, dreamy narrative of hope and change and you wondered if this will be a face that is beamed into every home on every news channel for the next decade, or if the whole Obama movement would turn out to have been a chimera, a radical political venture that had to, sooner or later, misfire.
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