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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Dampf

2 Washington Post writers at the Olympics despite being laid off, say it was important to be there

Washington Post - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Washington Post columnist Barry Svrluga was reporting from his first Winter Olympics when Lindsey Vonn left her hospital bed after a crash and returned to compete days later at the 2006 Turin Games.

He is back in Italy two decades later at the Milan Cortina Games and was there again to write about it when Vonn ended up back in the hospital following another crash. Even though he’s losing his job.

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