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...black leotard into a sleeveless electric blue one. And when she stepped up to receive her medal, she raised an index finger in the air. "I'm still an Olympic champion," she said at a press conference after the event. She had a point. In Sydney 2000 and Atlanta 1996, Khorkina won gold in the uneven bars, her signature event. Her chance to make it three for three was still ahead of her. Patterson's victory capped one of America's best weeks ever in Olympic gymnastics. The U.S. won silver in the men's and women's team events...
...jeer. Even when New York captured the World Series title in 1996, the response was muted. Another season, like every other since 1918, had come and gone without a World Series victory, but there was little reason to decry that year’s outcome any more than the Atlanta Braves’ title...
Will the U.S. fall in love with this team? The story lines say we should, but Canadian, Japanese and Russian women are more experienced. If the U.S. soccer team had won the silver in Atlanta, would as many girls be playing today? So for these women, all that's at stake is the future of their sport. "They definitely love you if you win," says Miranda. "That's all part of the game." Miranda has won over one tough convert already. Her once reluctant dad will be cheering in Athens, watching his daughter pin down a dream...
Hurt by a failure to develop new stars, American women's gymnastics floundered in the years after the team's historic victory in Atlanta. Says USA Gymnastics president Bob Colarossi: "We had to do something." He pleaded for help from Bela, who was retired. Colarossi, Bela and Martha came up with a program that would not only improve the U.S.'s Olympic chances, but also keep the talent pipeline full. In 1999 Bela became the first national team coordinator (his wife succeeded him two years later), the gym czar with veto power over the Olympic team...
...Publicly, the international community has gone out of its way to praise the Greeks for their willingness to accept advice (from Israelis on suicide bombers, the Czechs on chemical weapons, the Russians on Chechen rebels) and for ponying up $1.5 billion--15 times as much as Atlanta--in security costs...