Olympic Ideal Ended When Medal Tally Started
Olga Connolly’s commentary was so admirably comprehensive. . . . If she had been old enough, she would have remembered that 1936 was the beginning of the “end” when, for the first time, the nations totaled up their medals.
M.Y. McIVOR
Sierra Madre
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