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...Olympics. "If windsurfing wasn't fun, I would have given it up ages ago. It definitely does have its hard times, but it is in essence a fun sport." Kendall is New Zealand's most successful female Olympian. She won the inaugural women's boardsailing competition at the 1992 Barcelona Games, and followed it up with a silver medal in Atlanta and a bronze in Sydney. In a small, sailing-mad country, Kendall has managed to remain a "golden girl" after almost two decades on the professional circuit. "There is pressure on me, but it's not intense pressure...
...Like a Spartan in Ancient Greece, she never, ever surrenders or loses sight of the target." Several months before Barcelona, Kendall was thrown from a power boat, its propeller severing a tendon and breaking a bone in her wrist. During a remarkable recovery, she trained with her brother Bruce (Olympic boardsailing champion in '88). "It never occurred to her that she couldn't beat him," recalls Beck. "She drove herself to a level so far ahead of the women that she absolutely dominated the Olympic competition." Despite her laid-back lingo ("bummed" and "stoked"), there's a regal confidence...
...reckons 16 million?or nearly a third?of all its supporters live in Asia. So, in 2000, the club opened its first Asian store, in Singapore, hawking everything from player figurines to cell-phone straps. Crosstown rivals Man City now have shops in China, while European clubs AC Milan, Barcelona and Juventus have each opened boutiques in Tokyo...
...Sydney, works as a model and starred as a plucky migrant worker in a movie called Far from Home. Fellow gymnast Li Xiaoshuang has recorded an album of pop ditties. Fu Mingxia, the legendary diver who first struck gold as a teddy-bear-carrying 13-year-old in Barcelona, has appeared on Sprite cans. "Sports is an industry now," says Guo, declining like a seasoned pro to discuss the details of her endorsement contracts. "It's another example of how economic reforms have changed China...
Pang says the new requirement has marred his experience even after making it to the United States by a narrow margin. He encountered the system immediately after stepping off the plane when he returned from a trip to Barcelona he took this past spring—his first foray out of the country since he barely made...