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John Powers is a sports writer for the Boston Globe. He covers general sports, but specializes in coverage of the summer and winter Olympic games. [CR-LF][CR-LF]He contributes to the Globe's Sunday magazine and is a co-author of over seven books. He contributes regularly a variety of national broadcast networks, including ESPN. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Mr. Powers has been with the Globe since 1973, and has covered the Olympics since 1976. He writes specifically about NCAA athletics, the U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee. He has also covered the Boston Marathon and World Cup Soccer.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Mr. Powers shared the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his Globe Magazine piece on the nuclear arms race. In 2001, the Globe won the Associated Press Sports Editors Contest, which specifically honored Mr. Powers' work on enterprise.[CR-LF][CR-LF]He graduated cum laude from Harvard and is a former Poynter Fellow at Yale. He is best reached by e-mail.

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