The Globe and Mail's Simon Houpt writes:
"After weeks of critical coverage of Russia and its shambolic Winter Games, the international media has now largely left that story behind in favour of a narrative that is likely much more pleasing to the organizers: the competitions themselves. The jokes about twin toilets and live wires in showers have been supplanted on front pages around the world by photos of beaming athletes."
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