FLOWERS' STORY TOO GOOD FOR BOBSLEDDING.(Special Pullouts)(Column)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: February 21, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: Mike Littwin

SALT LAKE CITY -- Vonetta Flowers is the Olympics. Her story is the Olympic story.

Whatever angle you want to take, whatever moral you want to supply, this story never will disappoint.

It's a story about a dream - performing in the Olympics - that, even by NBC's exacting standards, takes the wildest possible twist and the wildest possible turn.

It's a story about a fluke, in which Flowers becomes an Olympian because...

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