Summer Olympic Games are always full of feel-good stories and triumphs
By Jim O’Brien
Grantland Rice, the greatest sportswriter of his era, once wrote that when you stop finding heroes in sports you should get out of the sportswriting business. I agree.
Count me as one of the sportswriters who still gets a kick out of watching the Summer Olympic Games. I have been a fan since the 1956 Games in Melbourne, Australia, and know the history of the Games before that in Helsinki, London and Berlin. They may take afinancial toll on the host nation and some critics believe they have outlived their usefulness because of the cost involved, but I hope they remain on the sports schedule.
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