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New Phelps and skateboarder’s ukulele – snapshots from the Paris press seats
The buzz of being a journalist at the Olympics is seeing sporting excellence and then going to the mixed zone, a sort of holding pen for journalists, and taking the chance to demean yourself by cramming against barriers and bodies, the whiff of eye- …