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Olympic postcard: Turn up the heat!

By Anne Marie Cruz
ESPNMAG.com

Wednesday, September 13, 2000

The Mag's Anne Marie Cruz has survived a mind-numbing plane trip and a modem-numbing laptop crash. This is her first dispatch from Sydney. Let's get one thing straight: I did not schlep halfway around the world to complain. (To giggle at how the water swirls the wrong way down the drain, maybe.) But Lordy be, it's FUH-REE-ZING here. Granted, I am the ultimate cold-weather wuss-ask anyone who's seen me wearing my snowboarding jacket in the office during the summer-but you can see your breath in t ...

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