11. Another opening is the executive directorship of USA Gymnastics, one of the most high-profile and powerful national governing bodies in the Olympic movement. 12. Athletes like Hill provide the greatest hope for the strained, shamed Olympic movement. 13. A few officials took the hit for getting caught quarterbacking the bribes, but everybody knows it permeated the Olympic movement. 14. A number of the international sports federations that comprise the Olympic movement are anchored in Western Europe. 15. A surgeon who seeks antiseptic standards and lops off massive waste in the Olympic movement? 16. After all, the Olympic movement gets royalties, and delivering the mail is a big and important business, too. 17. But as you stand before the Sydney Opera House on a summer afternoon in the other hemisphere, it is easy to feel warmer about the Olympic movement. 18. But for truly big money, the trail goes to American-based international corporations that sponsor the Olympic movement and also advertise on television. 19. But in the longer sense, before the attacks, the Olympic movement was becoming top-heavy with financial machinations and drug scandals and grinding security. 20. But Monday, a ray of hope shone on the shamed Olympic movement. |
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