rec.sport.olympics
The Olympic Games, summer and winter.
A group that surged every two years: event schedules in every timezone, medal-table nationalism (mostly good-natured), judging scandals relitigated in detail, and bid-city politics between Games.
Atlanta, Nagano, Sydney, Salt Lake, Athens — the archive is a fan’s-eye chronicle of each.
Reading rec.sport.olympics today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — rec.sport.olympics (coverage varies by group and era).
- Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
- The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.