I confess to never missing Edward Rothstein in the New York Times. His history of the Olympic torch run, which was begun by the Nazi's a decade after Germany had been banned from the Olympics and just four decades after the Olympics were first revived, is not to be missed.
I'm never one for sentimentality....the Olympic torch issue is just proof of my point that sentimentality (about the universal brotherhood of sports) is misleading and itself provokes hostilities.
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