SAN JOSÉ, United States: One journalist arrived clad in a sparkling gold superhero costume. Another fired off questions to athletes via a glove puppet.

Elsewhere in the cavernous indoor expanse of San Jose’s SAP Center -- popular nickname: “The Shark Tank” -- selfie stick-wielding reporters posed for snaps with Miss Universe, Pia Wurtzbach of the Philippines, hired by a US television entertainment show as an interviewer for the occasion.

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