The IOC announced that North and South Korea "will
march as one" during Friday's Opening Ceremony. The two
teams will wear the same uniform and walk behind the Korean
"unification flag" (L.A. TIMES, 9/11)....In Sydney, Mike Gee
reports speculation that Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush will
perform their '86 song, "Don't Give Up," during Friday's
Opening Ceremony. In addition, Colin Hay and Greg Ham of
Men At Work will perform their '82 song, "Down Under,"
during the Closing Ceremony (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 9/11).
NOTES: In DC, Amy Shipley wrote that IOC VP Dick Pound
"assailed the study" on performance-enhancing drugs in
Olympic sports commissioned by the U.S. ONDCP and produced
by Columbia Univ. as "biased, inaccurate and incomplete."
Pound: "The nicest thing you could say about it is that it's
wooly [sloppy] as a study. The worst you can say is that
it's been deliberately manipulative. It's the most
astonishing lack of scientific method that I've ever seen"
(WASHINGTON POST, 9/10)....In Dallas, Mike McAllister
reported that U.S. Olympic swim team captain Josh Davis will
offer a daily dairy from Sydney on Dallasnews.com (DALLAS
MORNING NEWS, 9/10)....A bus scheduled to pick up Juan
Antonio Samaranch and the rest of the IOC exec board for a
planned visit to the Int'l Broadcast Center in Sydney
"failed to turn up" Saturday, resulting in cancellation of
the trip. One IOC exec board member: "The Games organisers
had better get the transport sorted out or things could
become chaotic" (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, 9/10)....In Toronto,
Allan Maki writes that Sydney "is sure to stage a most
spectacular Games" and called the athletic facilities at
Homebush Bay "bold, eye-catching, large and expensive"
(Toronto GLOBE & MAIL, 9/11)....In N.Y., Clemente Lisi wrote
that Olympic athletes "have dubbed" the upcoming Games the
"Sex Olympics" after arriving in Australia Saturday "to be
handed 51 condoms each -- enough for sex three times a day
for 17 days of events" (N.Y. POST, 9/10).
