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The weird and the wonderful
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The great run
The Paris massacre
A fish called Spitz
On 5 September, the morning after his last race, Spitz walked to the media centre for a scheduled press conference, only to hear that a group of terrorists had broken into the athletes’ village and shot Israeli athletes. Spitz was immediately evacuated—first to London, and then to the US. “On Wednesday (6 September) I was in Sacramento…watching the Olympics on TV as if I had never been there," he said.
Blade runners
Pain is just a four-letter word
Mankind’s giant leap
Nothing’s going to stop her
One man to do it all
The triumphant flop
Graphics by Ahmed Raza Khan/Mint; Illustration by Jayachandran/Mint
rudraneil.s@livemint.com
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