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Huffington Post | by Giles Slade | Thu, Sep 24

Huffington Post is the #2 News Source for 2008 Summer Olympics

We have hosted the Olympics more times than any other nation. Even in this bad year, we can show the rest of the world how it's done. In 1985, robbers broke into the home of John Kondrads, a retired Australian Olympic swimmer. The thieves took 16 medals including the gold medallion Konrads was a...

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