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...races, Japan's men won four medals?four more than in Sydney, where their squad sank without a trace. The country's female swimmers also captured three medals, including a gold in the 200-m backstroke. Equally impressive, in the men's team-gymnastics final, the Japanese, whose spiky 'dos made them look as if they were sponsored by a hair-gel company, flipped past favorites China, Romania and the U.S. for a surprise win. And in judo?a sport that Japan invented and is always expected to dominate? Japanese fighters grappled their way to eight golds and two silvers...
...though seats are another issue. No matter: the track is down, and on Aug. 24, Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj, perhaps the greatest middle-distance runner of all time, will chase the 1,500-m gold medal that keeps eluding him. In the nearby Indoor Hall, tiny Brazilian gymnast Daiane dos Santos will spring all 4-ft. 7-in. of herself into impossible flips and twists. At the end of 17 hypercovered days, TV watchers are likely to look back in amazement at the opening ceremonies and the 100-m dash, in amusement at speed walking and team handball, and move...
CAROLYN KEPCHER Carolyn 101 (Simon & Schuster; October) The Trump exec who sat to his left in the dreaded boardroom mentors women on the dos and don'ts of exploiting their...
...There were cries of opportunism earlier this year when Brazilian export Francileudo dos Santos took Tunisian citizenship in order to play for his adopted country in the African Nations Cup. Although dos Santos's talents made him a key member of the Tunisian side, he wasn't good enough to come even close to playing for his own country, and emigration became an attractive option. The Tunisians slapped down any complaints by pointing out that they were simply following in the well-established traditions of Europe. Dos Santos didn't help matters, of course, when in a recent moment...
BRITNEY SPEARS' Las Vegas vows to hometowner JASON ALEXANDER weren't the first celebrity I dos to be undone without divorce. From the annals of annulment...