I find, paging through Olympics history, that I recognize a much higher proportion of the figure skaters than any other athletes. They must get their post-games publicity in places I actually pay some attention to. I couldn't identify any of the luge team if you paid me. Most of the other competitors, I only remember if they were in the news for being an Olympic athlete and something else. Carl Lewis and Jackie Joyner-Kersee , I recognize mainly because I went through the public school system in Arizona, and apparently they are too lazy to notice that there are actually a lot of athletes that are not pasty white. Jesse Owens is famous for embarrassing Nazi Germany in 1936 by generally not being an inferior specimen. More recently, Michael Phelps made headlines for admitting he'd tried marijuana, right up until the point where everyone realized he wasn't actually high at the Olympics, and then it wasn't interesting anymore. I have a vague recollection of someone n...
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