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Everywhere you turned there was something brilliant happening. Texan Laura Wilkinson came from nowhere to win the platform diving on a broken foot. Chinese veteran Xiong Ni nailed his last dive to become the only man besides Greg Louganis to win back-to-back titles off the springboard. American volleyballers Dain Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana kicked sand in Brazil's face at Bondi Beach. The softball and baseball tournaments were more competitive than ever. The U.S. batswomen lost thrice before storming back to win the gold, while the batsmen did the unprecedented, beating Cuba...
...sneakers on a night that now stands as perhaps the greatest in track-and-field history. Beginning at 6 that Monday evening, 112,574 Australians and their guests watched as American Michael Johnson embarrassed the field at 400 m, becoming the first man ever to win that event in back-to-back Olympics; as American Stacy Dragila bested a bevy of blonds to win the first-ever Olympic women's pole vault; as Romanian Gabriela Szabo held off Irishwoman Sonia O'Sullivan four times in the stretch to win a thrilling 5,000-m race by a quarter...
...exuberant Crimson squad that has put together back-to-back victories over regional foes Northeastern and Boston College, this weekend's clash with league rival Cornell carries a heightened sense of importance...
...kept hanging around, hanging around - fifth place, fourth, third - and then nailed his last dive and won again, just like in Atlanta. He's the Chinese guy Greg Louganis barely beat in Seoul, way back in '88, and now he's the only man beside Louganis to win back-to-back titles off the springboard. Good...
...Earlier in the night, our Michael Johnson won the 400 meters again, becoming the first person ever to win that event in back-to-back Olympics. Later in the night, Ethiopia's equally great Haile Gebrselassie won the most exciting 10,000-m run anyone's ever seen, nipping Kenya's Paul Tergat right at the wire. But neither of those races were what people went home remembering. They went home remembering Cathy...