Are You Ready for the Bubbalympics?
Rising from Atlanta's sweltering mists is a revamped event we can only call the New Olympics.

The New Olympic Ideal?
Meet Brooke Bennett, Olympic swimmer. Her talent: great. Her potential marketability: even greater.

The Book On
Definitive tout sheets for the speculative Olympic viewer

It's Been Fun, Modern Pentathlon ...
For each TV-friendly event added--hello, beach volleyball!-- another
old standard gets the boot. A short lesson in Olympic Darwinism.

Of Medal Dreams and Collard Greens
A by-the-numbers accounting of Atlanta's gargantuan coming-out party.

The Hype
Because they're good enough, they're telegenic enough, and doggonnit, people like them. Fast-forwarding through those ubiquitous athlete video vignettes.

Better Olympians Through Science
How do you turn five million bucks and a healthy dose of jingoism into gold? Consider Superbike II.

Is Everything to Your Liking, Mr. Samaranch?
To bring the Games to your hometown requires some romancing, some embellishing, and--yes--some bribing. A six-step plan for success.
Plus: a warts-and-all glance at the front runners in the race to
host the Games in 2004.