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The punch-up in the press room
JUST once in a while, the dull ritual that is a press conference unexpectedly becomes the story, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
Algeria's Imane Khelif helps Hungary's Anna Hamori out of the ring after their women's 66kg quarterfinal boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, August 3, 2024, in Paris, France
FOR sports reporters (and likely most other beats, too), the press conference is a tedious ritual during which we are fed pat answers to often equally banal questions.
If you have a really good question, you’d rather hold it back, because otherwise all of your colleagues are privy to the answer. No scoop there.
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