| With most of us, (well those of us who are sports fans anyway!) still trying to recover from the recent orgy of Olympic sport and re-gather energy for the Paralympics, it is a little hard to believe that the Sydney Olympics have come and gone. After all the build up and media hype, Sydney seems to have pulled it off, although some commentators are not so convinced about the media’s role in representing the Olympics to those of us who couldn’t `be there’. The reviews in this feature come from Sydneysiders to North America, and from across the Tasman. Click on to find out what serious sports and feminist scholars have to say about their impressions of the Olympics. |
