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...last week's Deutsche Bank Championship near Boston, VIJAY SINGH proved once again what has become increasingly clear all year: he's the world's best golfer. The 41-year-old Fijian held off Tiger Woods to snatch his sixth win of the season, ending the ex-champ's record 264-week stand as the sport's No. 1. "The easier part is getting to the top," Singh said later. "The hardest part is staying up there...
ESSAY: Jamie Malanowski imagines the Jeopardy! champ's future...
There were no doubts about the winner the next night. Russian diva Svetlana Khorkina, the three-time world champ, wobbled on the balance beam and was more ballerina than athlete on the floor exercise. But Carly Patterson, 16, whose klutziness in the team final let Romania beat the favored Americans to gold, scored strong 9.7s on those routines, giving her the first U.S. women's all-around gold since Mary Lou Retton's in 1984. It was America's first individual sweep. For Patterson, the "new Mary Lou" label is inevitable. But she may lack the perkiness factor that...
...Russian winner of the women's shot-put and the Hungarian gold medalist in the men's discus event lost their medals after drug tests. But the Americans escaped unscathed. "The sport was going to remain under a dark cloud until we did phenomenal things," says long-jump champ Dwight Phillips, who as a teenager broke both legs after backpedaling into a motorcycle. "Here, we are doing phenomenal things...
...hasn't only been phenomenal. Like Crawford, it's been unusual. At the start of the 200-m final Thursday night, the Greek crowd ignored the public address announcer's pleas for quiet, whistling and booing in support of Kostas Kederis, the 2000 Olympic champ from Greece who pulled out of the Games in a doping controversy. The race was delayed six minutes. Although the sprinters admitted the delay irked them, after Crawford, Bernard Williams and Gatlin placed 1-2-3, the American's didn't seek revenge on the jingoistic fans. There was no chest thumping, no taunting. Says...