Rita Bullwinkel, Writer: “Every Moment We Live Has a Little Joy and Pain, but Sport Offers the Fantasy of Victory or Defeat”

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In the mid-1970s, the oil crisis put the tourist paradise that Magaluf (Mallorca) had become in jeopardy. Thus began the price war that led to the low-cost experience we know today. A phrase by Harry Goodman, leader of British tour operators, became famous: “Everyone should be able to travel to Magaluf with a pound in their pocket.” Walking through the four streets of the tourist center, it seems that a little of that promise of opulence for the…