Get ready for the Games!

Salt Lake City
GER 12 16 7 35
USA 10 13 11 34
NOR 11 7 6 24
CAN 6 3 8 17
RUS 6 6 4 16
AUT 2 4 10 16
ITA 4 4 4 12
FRA 4 5 2 11
SUI 3 2 6 11
NED 3 5 0 8

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Sports Illustrated publishes in Salt Lake

Keith McCord
KSL-TV

      Wednesday's daily edition of Sports Illustrated is called "Day 6", and features lists of all the athletes who participated today, plus other articles.
      When Sports Illustrated signed on to be an "official supplier" for the 2002 Games, part of the deal was to print the daily programs that you buy at each of the venues.
      All written, and printed right here!
      It's 1:30 am at Spectrum Press in Bountiful. This is the place that usually produces the Davis County Clipper newspaper.
      Now, it's also taken on the Sports Illustrated Olympic Daily-- a 30-page program that's sold at the Olympic venues.
      "This is the first time at a Winter Olympics," says Sports Illustrated Olympic Daily editor Sandy Bailey. "We did a daily in Atlanta in 1996. But we're virgins for the Winter Olympics."
      At the main media center at the Salt Palace, Sports Illustrated has brought in about 70 of its staff memebrs from New York, and from around the world.
      Reporters, photographers, editors work all day to create the editions that go on sale the following day.
      "We like to think that this is your indispensible guide to the Games," Bailey says. "If you're at the Games for the day, you really have to pick this up. It tells you everything from where you can pick up Trax, busses, and how to get around."
      The Daily also prints out the "draw sheet" for each of the events, so you know which athlete will skate or ski or jump, and in what order.
      And each issue is different.
      "Every day we have at least one feature story that's keyed to that particular day," Bailey explains.
      Basically, this is a mini version of the "Sports Illustrated" offices in New York, and the employees are loving the change of scenery!
      "And it's even more fun than the newsroom in New York, because we not only have the editors, but we have the writers in here," Bailey says. "And at Sports Illustrated, they're sending in their stories from wherever it might be. And it's really fun to come in and say, 'Hey, I got a great figure item!'"
     
      The daily edition is sold at the venues, the superstore, airport, and a variety of other locations in the Valley. One other note, Sports Illustraed also created the Official Olympic Program!

February 14, 2002




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