(Olympic overview, CNN Headline News, about the 1994 winter games)

	`Well, the results this time astounded all of our experts.

(switch to footage of the opening ceremonies)

	`The Japanese team was expected to do well, having the unmistakable
advantage known as Saotome Ranma again participating in an even half-dozen
events.  

(footage of the Japan-Dark Kindom team entering the Olympic arena)

	`Their choice to field a combined team with the Dark Kingdom turned the
tables entirely in their favor, with a Japan-Dark Kingdom team member medaling
in each event.

(footage from Saotome Ranma's technical performance in women's figure)

	`Saotome Ranma took six medals, two gold, three silver, and a bronze.

(footage from Saotome Ranma and Saotome Ukyou's artistic performance in pair
figure)

	`Saotome Ukyou took three, a silver and two bronze.

(footage from Kino Makoto's technical performance, men's figure)

	`Kino Makoto took two gold in  figure skating, both the women's and the
men's.

(footage from Tanya Harding's technical performance, women's figure)

	`Tanya Harding, who joined the Dark Kingdom team after the 1993
Goodwill games, took the silver, managing to land a quintuple axle in this
competion.

(footage from Tsukino Usagi's artistic performance, women's figure)

	`A relative newcomer, Tsukino Usagi, took the bronze in women's figure
skating, with a performance that would have merited a gold in any normal
competion.

	`The entire Japanese-Dark Kingdom team performed to a superhuman level,
which is only to be expected in some cases, since several of the Dark Kingdom
athletes are not human.

(footage of Nostat, a hulking, scaled figure almost two and a half meters tall,
bending to accept the gold for men's speed skating)

	`The most obvious of them in these games, Nostat, took a bronze in
speed-skating.'

(footage of grey-haired people sitting around a table, several standing, one
waving their hands emphaticly)

	`The governing council is still trying to decide if they will accept
King Serenity's word on the gender of Dark Kingdom athletes in the future, and
whether to bar female athletes from competing in the men's events.

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this part written 2000/Sept/19
ed 2001/Jan/19