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...Games Begin I recognize that your magazine caters largely to a U.S. audience, but the over-representation of U.S. athletes in "100 Olympic Athletes to Watch" may mean that some of your readers do not focus on athletes from other countries who have fascinating stories [Aug. 4]. Richard Barrett, Honolulu...
...Barring a disaster in the qualifying heats, Phelps will swim in the finals of the 200m individual medley on Aug. 15, the 100m butterfly on Aug. 16, and the 4x100m medley relay on Aug. 18. The potential record breaker - the medley relay - is the wild card right now: Brendan Hansen, America's best breaststroker, finished fourth in the 100m event this week. He was the defending world champ: time for Phelps to pump...
...gymnastics, originally designed to protect athletes. There's little question that if the age minimum were dropped, countries like the U.S. could field their younger - and often smaller and more fearless - gymnasts. Nastia Liukin, who scored a spectacular 16.9 for the U.S. on the uneven bars during the Aug. 13 team finals, was unable to compete four years ago in Athens because she was too young...
...group's Aug. 13 protest, five activists dressed in "Free Tibet" T shirts locked a row of bicycles to the entrance of the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park in the north of Beijing, which they used to keep police from dragging them away. Security guards grabbed their Tibetan flags but allowed them to remain on the spot for about 10 minutes as they chanted slogans and conducted interviews with foreign journalists. "The Chinese people are great, but shame on the Chinese government because they are lying to the people of China," said Pema Yoko, 25, a Tibetan-Japanese woman from...
...foreign demonstrators have simply been sent out of the country, domestic activists face much harsher scrutiny. Human Rights Watch says there have been at least five cases of the authorities blocking Chinese citizens from staging protests during the Games. A legal activist from southeastern Fujian province was arrested on Aug. 11 after applying to protest corruption and official abuses of power in Beijing. Ji Sizun, 58, hasn't been seen since, the group says. "He posed no threat to social stability or harmony. He wasn't challenging the legitimacy of the government or the Chinese Communist Party," says Kine...