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Olympic buzz: Where's a good scandal when you need one?

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As far as the kind of roiling Olympic controversies that can make the Games so interesting, the South Korean version of things has been kind of boring. Where's Ryan Lochte when you need him?

It's common sense that when you have nearly 3,000 highly charged athletes and more support people and even more media that something could go terribly wrong. Even International Olympic Committee members, who have a history of

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