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...hoops, it's one down and two to go on the road to redemption. In their first game of the medal round in Olympic basketball - where it's win or go home - the NBA stars blew open a competitive game at the start of the second half and coasted to a 116-85 win against Australia. And for the first time in these games, Kobe Bryant - by far the biggest fan favorite among foreign athletes in these Games - had a break out game. He shot beautifully from long range (four of seven from three point land) and threw...
...sheer talent was too much - with Bryant leading the way, to the delight of the mostly pro U.S. Chinese crowd. Asked if he was concerned about the possibility (and that's what it remained, as they have been eliminated) of playing Greece again in the tournament - the U.S. blew them out last week but lost to them in the World Championships two years ago - Bryant deadpanned, "we're scared to death...
...200m mark, 19.32 seconds, set in the '96 Atlanta Olympics, was wiped off the track. Bolt became the first runner since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win both the 100m and 200m races at an Olympics. He's the first to ever break world records in each. "I just blew my mind," Bolt said after the race, "and blew the world's mind...
...started . "I heard several airplanes roaring overhead," he told TIME through an interpreter at a Tbilisi café." There was a big flash and a terrible noise. We thought the whole building was falling down. " The percussion and fragments from what human rights monitors confirm as a cluster bomb blew out the windows but the building stood. Maglakelidze says he was anxious to stay on to do what he could to protect the museum, but two days later, when looters descended on the town , he decided to pack up the most prized exhibits - including the Kant letter and death mask...
...candidates debated a week before the election, and the celebrity cleaned the President's clock. "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Reagan asked in his closing statement. He seemed every bit as substantial as Carter and much less of a sourpuss. The race blew open after that, and Reagan won a convincing victory...