Summary
A few thousand feet and more than a thousand years separate the crumbling eighth-century Benedictine monastery of Novalesa from the Olympic ski slopes. Little has changed since Charlemagne stayed there. Church bells still urge hooded monks to prayer, but higher up the mountain, cow bells exhort the skiers. The monks don't pray for individual athletes or teams, but they do intercede for a peaceful Olympics and international harmony. And they even lobby God to lead athletes from temptation. No, not piste groupies, but doping. "They shouldn't be putting that sort of thing in their bodies, " said Brother Paolo.
Chevy, a wild-eyed Siberian husky, lopes around the athletes' village pretty much as he pleases. No-one can stop him. The pooch belongs to skier Daron Rahlves and round his collar he wears accreditation, complete with photo: "Chevy Rahlves/Skiing/ Security".See the full content of this document
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The organising committee has no record of him. The US Olympic Committee, "thought it would be a little bit of a joke ...
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