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...gold with a time of 2:26:20. Even earlier, 16 competitors, including British world-record holder Paula Radcliffe, had left the historic town of Marathon, only to abandon the race because of the brutal hills and 35?C heat. (A few days later, Radcliffe would also fail to finish the 10,000 m, a meltdown the British press thought worthy of a Greek tragedy...
...decline of European powers such as Russia and Germany played like melancholy background music throughout the Games. By late Saturday, with one day's competition to go, Germany had just 47 medals - down from Sydney's 56 and Atlanta's 65 - its poorest showing since reunification. Russia may finish second in the overall tally (on Saturday night it had 83 medals), but it lagged in golds, with just 23 through Saturday, nine fewer than in Sydney. Athens looks likely to be the first Games since Helsinki in 1952, when the USSR first competed at the Summer Olympics, that Russia will...
...prostrate himself across the track in dismay. He didn't bury his face in his hands. He bounced off track into the press area, smiling like he had won an olive wreath. "I wasn't disappointed at all," he says. "People just don't understand, when I crossed the finish line, I saw that my training partner (100-m gold medalist Justin Gatlin) ran a personal best, and had almost set an Olympic record. I was so happy for him. I knew I just had to just worry about the 200." Crawford cruised to a gold in that race...
...Thomas and Henry somehow managed to trump even better-known compatriots Ian Thorpe (who won the 200-m and 400-m freestyle) and Grant Hackett (who retained his 1,500-m crown) in the medal and publicity stakes. The two swimmers also helped Australia's women to finish ahead of their U.S. counterparts in the country rankings, thanks to their team's world-record breaking performances in the 100-m freestyle and 100-m medley relays. And the exploits of newcomers such as Lisbeth Lenton, Alice Mills and Jessicah Schipper, and more experienced performers such as breaststrokers Brooke Hanson...
WHERE DO YOU THINK THE U.S. MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM WILL FINISH...