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...nine months before his term was up in order to trade on popular resentment of the West's endless sanctions and last year's NATO bombing campaign to drive Serb troops out of Kosovo, where they were persecuting ethnic Albanians. Milosevic expected his control of the media, the security apparatus and the electoral machinery to produce victory. He thought the opposition, torn by perpetual infighting, was a shambles. He never anticipated Vojislav Kostunica...
...mental preparation just before she went to the bars where, yet again, she wound up on the floor. She walked out of the gym and it seemed for moment that finding herself in 18th place, she had given up and would not even try to compete on the last apparatus. But the girl who had the nerve to pose nude in Russian Playboy came back in and got up on the beam, normally her weakest event...
...tears didn't come immediately, and not in public view. Svetlana Khorkina, Russia's best hope for an individual gold medal in gymnastics, had fallen. She slipped from the uneven bars an unbelievable second time in a week. She hadn't lost on that apparatus in seven years, and that streak included getting gold in Atlanta. Now, in Sydney, she walked off the mats, brushed past her coach - a man who had been with her since grammar school - and went to sit alone. She held back the tears as the sports paparazzi pressed in, waiting for her to crack...
...Sept. 2 Galya gave Nemov another reason to win. While he was training in Adelaide, his son Alexei was born in Moscow. Nemov had not even seen a photo of the baby when he 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...
...unprecedented error threw the competition into turmoil. The Romanians were on their way to sweeping first second and third place. But now the girls who had taken the vault on the faulty apparatus were being given a scond chance. Five of them took it (not including Khorkina), though their scores did not change the position of the top three gymnasts. Nearly every one of the gymnasts over 153 cm had fallen or done badly. The Romanian gold medalist Andreea Raducan had sailed through the event, but she is only 148 cm. The impact of the miscalculation could not be overstated...