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FARE-THEE-WELL BEIJING

By Anthony Tao

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

It ended in a blink, these last two and a half weeks compressed in our memories like one big burst of emotion, excitement and energy. And so, with the flame extinguished and the Olympics over, the Beijing Bureau is ready to close shop. It's been a 10-week journey that, looking back, went by all too fast. These Games had it all, from touching stories, like German weightlifter Matthias Steiner standing on the gold-medal podium and kissing a photo of his wife, who died in a car crash last year; ...

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