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Everywhere you turned there was something brilliant happening. Texan Laura Wilkinson came from nowhere to win the platform diving on a broken foot. Chinese veteran Xiong Ni nailed his last dive to become the only man besides Greg Louganis to win back-to-back titles off the springboard. American volleyballers Dain Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana kicked sand in Brazil's face at Bondi Beach. The softball and baseball tournaments were more competitive than ever. The U.S. batswomen lost thrice before storming back to win the gold, while the batsmen did the unprecedented, beating Cuba 4-0 for the title. Finally...
...springboard, old Xiong Ni kept hanging around, hanging around - fifth place, fourth, third - and then nailed his last dive and won again, just like in Atlanta. He's the Chinese guy Greg Louganis barely beat in Seoul, way back in '88, and now he's the only man beside Louganis to win back-to-back titles off the springboard. Good...
...Officers, who haven't had time to change into uniforms, arrive at the scene in their civilian clothes--no badge, no gun, no radio, nothing but pounding adrenaline. They race into the building anyway. An old small car screeches to a halt and three officers dive out. One cop after another runs across the quad and inside...
...something for the eyes to feast on. Today's Olympics have the same carnival-like atmosphere. For a TV watcher, this spectacle makes for great viewing. Watch some javelin during the lull between 100-m heats. Cut away to the Aquatic Centre, where Fu Mingxia, triple gold medalist, will dive for China. Flip to a few rounds of the legendary Cuban heavyweight fighter Felix Savon. Here's Marion Jones--she wants to be the first woman to win five track-and-field golds in one Olympics--warming up for the long jump, but before she leaps you can thrill...
...never expected to be training for the 2000 Olympics. She left competition in 1996 and dived into normal life, studying management science at Beijing's prestigious Qinghua University. For two years, not once did she clamber onto a board. "The last thing I wanted to do was dive," she recalls. "I just wanted to be a kid without any pressures...