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In 2012, I made my mind up to not be hooked on the Olympics for two weeks. So I did every thing I could to stay away from the TV.
Then, I thought (the Olympics) are at least worth a peek, in case someone asks I can say "Sure I watched the games."
That was all it took. For the next two weeks, I missed very little. Taking in the great variety of sports, many of which we rarely see, I didn't miss a meal, eating in front of the TV which I never do.
This year, I again decided not to become a slave to the 2016 Olympic games. Let's face it, at my age, every minute seems very important.
And the media convinced me Brazil could not do the impossible necessary to pull off the Olympic games. There also was a deluge of reports saying how bad the housing would be, the venues would not be ready, and on and on and on.
And don't forget the mosquito. This fact alone caused several very good athletes not to participate for fear of the Zika Virus. I found myself feeling sorry for the athletes who did not participate. I guess we will have to wait and see if this fear was justified.
My wife did watch the opening ceremony and I caught some of it.
Wow. How could this country, with what I thought was limited money and ability, put on such a spectacular show? The next day, by accident, I found an archery competition, something you don't see too often. Shooting an arrow 70 meters into a little yellow bulls-eye was something else.
Also I saw the Olympic village.
Another wow. How could this country build such a magnificent place in such a short time?
Then I watched women's beach volleyball.
Double wow. I'm not sure who won but who cares.
The more I watched, the more amazed I was at the facilities, how the games were handled, the great variety of sports that we don't see every day, the athletic skills of the participants, and the overall beauty of Brazil.
I was hooked.
I saw four of the greatest tennis matches I ever saw.
The new golf course was fantastic, built from scratch in just three years.
Water polo has to be one of the roughest sports invented.
Team handball? I didn't know it existed.
Equestrian and rowing events were the best I've ever seen.
The coverage overall was fantastic, four TV channels of nothing but great events.
As I write this, I still have plenty of track and other great sporting events (including more women's beach volleyball) to watch.
It is still dark early in the morning. I got up early so I don't miss any of the good stuff.
Congratulation to Brazil and all the participants and workers who put on this great show.
Go U.S.A.
Tony Lamke is a former coach. He has researched the history of Clinton County sports and writes a periodic column for the News Journal. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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TALLAHASSEE — A fragile political truce on restoring Florida's no-fault automobile insurance system blew up Thursday, when a House committee added a potential deal-breaker to the bill: caps on how much attorneys can collect in car accident cases.
The Senate, which earlier in the day had advanced compromise legislation to restore mandatory personal-injury protections, or PIP, is strongly against the limits on lawyers' fees, setting up high-stakes political brinksmanship over the special session's final week.
"The House and Senate negotiated in good faith and reached an agreement," said Sen. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, vice chairman of the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee. "These amendments gut that agreement."
PIP is mandatory $10,000 auto insurance coverage used for personal injures. It's paid regardless of who is at fault in an accident. PIP expired Monday after more than three decades on the books, and legislators are trying to find common ground on emergency legislation to bring it back.
The lead House negotiator, Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, repeatedly warned members on the House Jobs and Entrepreneurship Council that adding "legal reforms," as Republicans on the panel called them, was a "nonstarter" with the Senate.
The Republican-led committee voted along party lines anyway to cap legal fees in auto accident cases at $10,000 or three times the amount of money in dispute, whichever is greater. For example, in a court battle over a $3,000 injury claim, the maximum fee for the plaintiff's attorney would be $9,000.
House members also eliminated something called a "multiplier" that would allow lawyers to double their hourly rates in complex cases.
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