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In just a few hours, President Bush opens the XIX Winter Olympic Games at the Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah, an extravaganza to be witnessed by 55,000 spectators and a worldwide viewing audience. Two thousand, five hundred athletes from 77 countries are poised to compete in 78 events (and guarded by a security force purported to be 16,000 members strong). The ceremonies include a contingent of U.S. athletes accompanied by a group of New York firefighters and police who will parade a torn and rumpled U.S. flag found in the ruins of the World Trade Center. The flag will symbolize the 80 nationalities killed in the terrorist attack.
Among the athletes in the opening ceremony will be at least two chiropractors: Dave Juehring and Doug Sharp, both Palmer graduates.
Dr. Juehring is director of the chiropractic rehabilitation and sports injury department at the Palmer Main Clinic in Davenport, Iowa, and a veteran bobsledder and coach at the previous two winter Olympics. He was responsible for team selection at the Olympic Bobsled Trials, and will be the leader for the men's and women's U.S. Olympic Bobsled Team. He will be involved with...