When I was sixteen, my dad took me along to a conference he attended in Calgary just days after the city host the 1988 Winter Olympics. By this time, the Eddie the Eagle and Jamaican bobsled T-shirts were all half-price, but everyone was still talking about the joke athletes that were the talk of the games.
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