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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Talk About an Olympic Super Fan

So you think you've been enraptured by the Beijing Olympics? You've got nothing on a 100-year-old woman living in Jiangsu province here.

According to the Yangtze Evening News, the woman had become so addicted to watching the Olympics on television non-stop that her family became concerned and wound up pulling the antenna out of the TV and pretending there was no signal.

-- Michael C. Lewis

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Michael C. Lewis, a veteran of the Olympics, is covering his second Summer Games. Kurt Kragthorpe, the dean of Tribune Olympics coverage, hits the road one more time. Chris Detrick is photographing his first Olympics Games. Click HERE to see his pictures.