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...unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shi'ites, just sport for the country," she says. But after learning the IOC's decision, Hussein was devastated. "With this horrible situation, who is to say I'll even be alive in 2012," she told CNN through tears, as her coach reminded her about the possibility of competing in the next Olympics...
...heard about Uday's treatment of Iraqi sportsmen, especially the national soccer team. When they lost a game, they routinely received beatings and an imaginative range of punishments - like being made to kick concrete balls, or forced to run shoeless over shards of glass. Later, I would meet a coach who had spent two terrifying hours in the iron maiden - his torso was riddled with scars from the spikes...
...some of the bargains made to lock in votes as routine political log-rolling. Despite a lot of finger-pointing, there has been no proof of bribery or other wrongdoing, and certainly opposition politicians cut deals of their own. But ordinary Indians weren't mollified. Says Suman Gogi, a coach for India's national judo team: "What [lawmakers] have done over the last few days has sullied the public image of politicians and all parties alike...
...doing a studio show and had just accepted the job at the Miami Dolphis. And we were having dinner and he and I had started talking about it-like what you?d learn by being in television that you would use if you went back as a coach. And I?m getting excited about it. And he?s getting-I?m going to do this, I?m going to do that, I learned this, I?m going to change this. And I?m saying yeah, I?d do this. And boom, boom, boom...
...then I?m walking from dinner back to the hotel and I was with Matt Millen. And I said Matt, this is the first time since I?ve retired that I feel like I want to go back and coach again, and I said I hope when I wake up in the morning the feeling goes away. And I woke up the next morning and the feeling went away...