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...incubating a huge pool of tender-aged athletes, China has struck gold particularly in sports like gymnastics, diving and table-tennis that the slender, lithe physique of the average Chinese tends to complement. China's table-tennis team swept all golds at both the Atlanta and Sydney Games?a dominance unmatched by any country in any other sport. But China's sports system has also been successful by deliberately focusing on Olympic events that were underfunded and unappreciated in the West. When China fully rejoined the Olympic movement in 1984, the country discovered that many women's sports were languishing...
...BOXING Featherweight boxer Somluck Khamsing became a national hero after winning Thailand's first-ever gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games. As a reward, his adoring country even paid him a $1.6 million bonus. But Somluck's mercurial training habits caught up with him, and he was easily defeated in the Sydney quarterfinals. The former champ has made ends meet in recent years by hosting a TV game show, opening a BBQ restaurant and recording a hit album with two fellow fighters called Three Boxers Become Singers. Now, however, the 31-year-old is making his comeback after...
...Sort of. No Olympic city, ancient or modern, is ever quite ready for such a huge spectacle, especially one that is now burdened by the baggage of global terrorism. Montreal played host to the 1976 Games with an unfinished Olympic stadium; the Atlanta Games never solved their traffic and technology woes. Even Sydney, lauded as the paragon Olympics just four years ago, had myriad preparation problems--not the least of them weak ticket sales--that were soon lost in the euphoria of the competition and the welcoming atmosphere. For all host cities, the first scorekeeping of the Games...
...situation sounds dire, it is actually much improved. In 1997, a year after watching parvenu Atlanta turn the Olympics into the world's largest county fair--lots of ads, lots of barbecue, no gravitas--the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) awarded the 2004 Games to Athens. The only reason was history. For 1,200 years--from the mid-700s B.C. to the end of the 4th century A.D.--tens of thousands of spectators from across the ancient world descended on the fields of Olympia to watch athletes compete. Wars were suspended, clothes were stripped off, and wine was devoured in what...
...forbid my daughter to take online surveys, so long as I sit beside her to walk her through them. It is my responsibility to educate my child about advertising. I try to instill a healthy amount of skepticism in her because advertising is everywhere. CLANCY V. MENDOZA Atlanta...