IT was exactly 20 years ago that Bryan Nickson Lomas was interviewed by the renowned Time magazine in a city steeped in Olympic tradition.
As Hannah Beech, the Shanghai bureau chief of the magazine, jotted down her notes, I sat next to Bryan, patiently waiting for my turn in the Olympic village in Athens.
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