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...Peszek and the rest of the men's and women's teams are all first-time Olympians - and experience in the Games, especially against a home-town crowd, can go a long way. "We are very very satisfied," said U.S. Women's national team coordinator Martha Karolyi on the final day of competition. "It shows if you systematically work very consistently during the whole quadrennium, the results will come...
...after all the build up surrounding the American and Chinese rivalry, on the mats, the gymnasts are still gymnasts and the coaches are still coaches, no matter what country they call home. When China's Cheng Fei came off the floor in tears after a fall in the event final, Chow just did what came naturally. He gave her a hug. "Everybody should perform their best because they are competitors," he said. "I just tried to give her some comfort, because she really felt bad about herself." And that, really, is what the Olympic experience is about...
...that China's sports czars only began targeting seriously a few years ago. The same goes for beach volleyball, in which the country's women placed ninth in Athens. This time around, China's red-bikini-clad sand spikers are guaranteed either gold or silver in the Aug. 21 final against the U.S. On Aug. 18 - the same day as when China's great male hope, hurdler Liu Xiang, flopped in the qualifiers - Chinese women quietly triumphed on the trampoline and uneven bars...
...Since Cejudo can pin your arms until next August, it's unwise to disagree. Plus, he's right on point. Today at China Agriculture University, Cejudo became the youngest gold medal winner in U.S. wrestling history when he dropped Japan's Tomohiro Matsunaga in the final match. The win shocked the wrestling world; Cejudo placed 31st at last year's world championships. But he upset 2006 world champ Radoslav Velikov of Bulgaria in the first round here. Cejudo was supposed to medal in 2012, maybe even '16. But not in Beijing...
...Cejudo won that gold in the second period of the 55-kg (121 lb.) final. In Olympic freestyle wrestling, the grapplers score points during 3-min. periods. The first person to win two periods wins the match. After taking the first period, Cejudo danced around the mat with Matsunaga, before executing the move of the match. "I just set him up," Cejudo explains. "I'm pretty unorthodox - I can find the leg from anywhere. That's just what happened. I didn't even see the leg, but I ended up grabbing it. And I just popped my hips, took...