Fun Stuff at the Olympics

salzberg · **Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:11 pm

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Security has been tightened at the Athens Games after a man in a tutu jumped into the pool from the diving board during the men's synchronized three-meter springboard event.

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Stuart Sweeney · **Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:31 pm

What this article doesn't say is that the concentration of the leading divers was broken and the medal result was all over the place.

Stuart Sweeney · **Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2004 12:22 am

Brazilian beach girls sending the right signals
By Jim White for The Daily Telegraph

Two Australian beach volleyball players, Nicole Sanderson and Natalie Cook, have spent much of their first week at this Olympics complaining bitterly that the way the Greeks are presenting the competition demeans their sport. They may have a point. Midway through the first set of a game yesterday between Greece and Brazil, the public address system was belting out a Euro pop song with the lyric "she's so sexy" while 10 leggy dancers in orange shrink-to-fit micro bikinis lined the sandy court, swinging their hips and pouting. And this just as Brazil's Sandra Pires shaped to serve.

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Cassandra · **Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2004 1:06 am

Didn't Deborah Colker do a stint as a beach volley ball player?

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