August 1999 Magazine Articles Backwash Backwash features short clips, gossip, letters and opinions.
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Mark Spitz is right. Standing in the newly proclaimed Mark Spitz Avenue, which will run right through the heart of the Sydney Olympic Athletes' Village, Spitz delivered a passionate performance that was worthy of a gold medal, reported by Jacqueline Magnay, Sydney Morning Herald . Sydney could be 100 per cent clean if the power-brokers wanted it to be. He also touched on discussions he had had with IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch about the need to reward Olympic medallists financially. The tragedy of modern sport is that drugs have made it a tainted and even sordid venue for the celebration of the human spirit.