Four years before Nagano, Japan was to host the 1998 Winter Olympics, journalist Ben Hills traveled to the site designated as the geographical center of the games. What he found there shocked him: “There is not a piece of machinery in sight, not a sign, not even a fence marking the spot,” he wrote. How could this possibly be the place where hundreds of thousands would converge for one of the world’s biggest sporting events?
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