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Athletes

Voice Lessons

by T. M. Luhrmann,

How coaches get in athletes’ heads

A Brief Period of Rejoicing

by Geoff Dyer,

Never mind the European meltdown, here’s the Olympics!

Double zoo

by Roland Barthes,Translated by Andrew Brown,

The rewards of the sporting life

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by George Plimpton,

Light

by R.E. (Richard E.) Jackman,

Clutching at flaws

by John Lahr,

Forecast

by Katherine Gauss Jackson,

The Olympic Games

by John Roberts Tunis,

AUGUST, 1928. This is the year and this the principal month of the Olympic Games, the modern sporting revival of those sacred games of ancient Greece held in the valley under…

Personal and otherwise

by Harper’s Staff,

The great sports myth

by John Roberts Tunis,

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