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...took the floor and whirled from apparatus to apparatus, holding his first place lead throughout and finally taking the gold by a whisper from China's Yang Wei. "A lot of things helped me, but what was important is that now I know I have a son," he said afterward...
...best time. As she entered the stadium for one lap of the track Takahashi's race was nearly cut short by an overzealous official who stepped out with the finish ribbon, but realized her mistake and let the runner past to complete the race. Japanese journalists thronged the athlete afterward, wanting to interview their new heroine and her coach for special late editions of their newspapers...
...began to try to cut a deal and eventually dismissed all but one of the 59 counts. Before releasing Lee on Wednesday, Judge Parker scolded the government for its handling of the case, apologized to Lee and told him he had served enough time already--278 days in prison. Afterward, Richardson argued improbably that the government had triumphed. "The issue here," he says, "is are we getting the tapes back, and do we find out what happened to those tapes. The plea bargain enables us to get that information." Maybe so, but there had to have been an easier...
...track meet, Jones and Greene cruised through their heats, not noticeably breaking a sweat. Jones ran 10.83 sec. on a cool Friday evening, thrilling 110,000 fans. "I decided to put one out there tonight," she said afterward. Sending a message? "Ohhh, I don't know." In Saturday's semifinals, two more warning shots: Jones and Greene each qualified fastest...
...gave him his first Olympic title - and, amid the country's wild celebrations, he thanked God, the crowd, the nation, his family and his coach. "I'm one of the select few athletes who have performed at their best at the Olympic Games," he said afterward. "It's one of the things I wanted to do." The other thing he wanted to do on Saturday was to help his teammates - Michael Klim, Chris Fydler and Ashley Callus - break the U.S. lock on the 4 x 100 freestyle relay...