In less than two weeks, the bright lights in Beijing will shine on thousands of athletes.
The talking heads will overwhelm us with the personal details of too many Olympians' path to success, but by mid-September, our brains will struggle to remember most of these details.
Chalk it up as a classic case of information overload.
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