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Crunch and Run The polynesian surge has forced coaches and administrators to review old habits. As a young player, Don Feltis idolized champions of the 1950s and '60s such as Clive Churchill and Johnny Raper. Nowadays, at 73, Feltis is immersed in the new wave as the boss of junior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Play | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

Wow. Who knew glue could do that? It seems that unlike us basement ping pong champions, table tennis athletes can actually use glue to snap the ball across the table in some pretty astounding ways. Think of slathering your palms with jelly or something equally slippery and then putting your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sticky Business of Table Tennis | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

In my system, overall points would be weighted by how popular the sport is, as determined by television ratings. You got a bronze in the gymnastic floor competition? That's 100 Olympic points. You nailed a gold in the modern pentathlon? (That's pistol-shooting, épée fencing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising the Stakes at the Olympics | 8/20/2008 | See Source »

That's probably enough talk about statement games for Team USA in the Olympic basketball competition. Tonight's 119-82 destruction of Spain, the 2006 World Champions, was more like a throwback game: a throwback to the days of the Dream Team, when the US seemed to play a different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: US Crushes Spain in Basketball | 8/16/2008 | See Source »

His pre-game routine was also kind of nuts. "I woke up at 11, then I had lunch," Bolt says. "Some nuggets," he says. Yes, the greasy McDonald's kind. "And then I pretty much went back to my room, and slept again, for like two hours. Then I went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolting to a World Record | 8/16/2008 | See Source »

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