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Br J Sports Med 2002;36:79 doi:10.1136/bjsm.36.2.79
  • Warm up
  • Editorial

“The unfriendly games”

  1. P McCrory
  1. Centre for Sports Medicine Research and Education and the Brain research Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr McCrory, PO Box 93, Shoreham, Victoria 3916, Australia;
 pmccrory{at}compuserve.com

    As I write this warm up, the 2002 Winter Olympics are in full flight at Salt Lake City, Utah. The media response has been rapid and savage. Already dubbed “the Unfriendly Games”, the overwhelming security at the venues and the infrastructure problems is making life extremely difficult by all accounts.1

    Is this the shape of things to come? The thin end of the wedge and all that. Following the September 11 tragedy and the fear of terrorist …

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