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...country's sports officials to apply the same model to medal-rich Olympic disciplines. In addition to diving, in which the Chinese won six of an available eight gold medals in Athens, the country is now a powerhouse in weight-lifting and shooting, neither of which was a popular event before the sports bureaucrats got involved. China's first Taekwondo national team was formed in 1995, when officials noticed that few athletes outside of South Korea competed in the martial art. Five years later, in Sydney, China won an Olympic gold in the sport. The first canoeing gold, which China...
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove...
Give the same effort to the 50-person event in Washington County, Pa., that you do to the 500-person event in Washington...
...level - from the 20 years after World War II. On May 14, Zenit St. Petersburg won Europe's UEFA Cup tournament - only the second time a Russian side had won a top prize. The next week, Moscow hosted the Champions' League final between Chelsea and Manchester United. The sparkling event came off with no hitches, defying predictions that Russia's capital wouldn't be up to staging the sport's marquee match, or, for that matter, controlling the barbarian hordes who flew in from...
...aren't less vulnerable to tornadoes than rural, flat areas. Consider the tornadoes that swept through downtown Atlanta and parts of New Orleans earlier this year, and the series of deadly tornadoes that battered Salt Lake City, Nashville and Miami in the late 1990s. "They're a very rare event," Jim Keeney, meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Kansas City, Mo., office, said of urban tornadoes. But, he explains, tornadoes form at an atmospheric level far above skyscrapers like Chicago's iconic Sears Tower. So tall buildings don't prevent their formation in cities...