SINGAPORE - Athletes are constantly locked in a special tango with time - the sports in which they compete are all about beating the clock, or performing a specific task with immaculate timing.
And the Olympic Games are the culmination of the years of hard work, distilled into timely executions that place the athletes among the world's elite.
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