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...formidable job: among other headaches, the candidate elected at the end of this month for a four-year term will have to deal with traffic problems, slums and pollution in the city of 10 million. Recent polls say the front runner is Pavena Hongsakula, a 55-year-old champion of women's rights who is promising to crack down on crime. Her leading rival is Chuwit Kamolvisit, 43, the city's massage-parlor king, whose massive pleasure palaces are said to have employed up to 2,000 women at any given time. He's vowing to go after a different...
...even in this brave new world of hyper-athleticism, no country systematically trains its kids as young and as hard as China does. Wu He, vice director of Guangdong's table-tennis association, has been involved in the sport for 46 years, first as southern China's champion and then as a coach. When he started out, most kids were 12 when they were picked by talent scouts for municipal-level sports academies. "Today, children must start, at the very latest, at six years old," he says. "Otherwise it's too late." To increase the level of play, China lowered...
...with Olympic glory. Xiao Jian, a lanky 30-year-old with an overgrown buzz cut, came to the Guangdong Sports Technology Institute?one rung higher on the sports hierarchy than Weilun?as a fencer back in 1989. At last year's national games, he was the men's ?p?e champion. But he was left off this year's Olympic roster due to what he says are complex disputes between his home province of Guangdong and Jiangsu, which has the best provincial record in fencing and therefore first pick in forming the roster. So instead of heading to Athens, Xiao...
...Japanese, but there's nothing gentle about Kosei Inoue as he grapples with a teammate at an Olympic training camp near Nagano in Japan. The stuffy gymnasium reverberates with the drum roll of bodies slamming off the mats as Inoue, an Olympic gold medalist and three-time world champion, grips his sparring partner, a baby-faced giant considerably larger than the 100-kg Inoue. The pair crashes together, then ricochets in a flailing knot off the mats and out of bounds, nearly crushing a Time reporter with a total of more than 200 kg of judo fury. "It's pretty...
...boxing can always count on a contingent of tiny tough guys from Thailand; 2003 world champ Somjit Jongjohor is looking to strike gold. And in one of the newest Olympic sports, women's wrestling, Japan can expect up to four gold medals, thanks in part to Kyoko Hamaguchi, a champion heavyweight grappler who is following in the footsteps of her pro wrestler father...