Of frogs and athletes

摘要

Australians are mad about sport, Land for the last two weeks of September they will be getting their fill of it with the Sydney Olympics. This is their second go—they hosted the 1956 Games in Melbourne—and it will be a feast of superlatives: the biggest event ever staged in Australia; over 10,000 athletes from 200 nations competing in 28 sports; and a worldwide audience, mainly via tv, of 3.5 billion people. The Olympic torch relay, which started three months before the Games, has drawn huge crowds on its journey round Australia.