In an e-mail interview,the pundit of China Central Television’s On the Spot Olympics coverage,Susan Brownell,gave Beijing Review her impressions of the Olympics lasting legacy on the nation and the Games themselves. A former U.S. track-and-field athlete her-self,Brownell is an authority on Chinese sports,having written several books on the country itself and conducted fieldwork on sports and body culture,and Olympic Studies. She was guest pro-fessor at the Beijing Sports University throughout 2007-08,and is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
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