Money talks

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June 22, 2008 1:38 PM PT

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And, apparently, buys the right to announce who made the U.S. men’s Olympic gymnastics team.

While officials of USA Gymnastics told reporters that an announcement would be made at 3 p.m. EDT at the Wachovia Center, the names of the team members appeared on nbcolympics.com shortly before a list was made public. NBC, of course, owns the U.S. TV rights to the games, having paid a reported $1.7 billion for worldwide media rights.

-- Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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