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...Olympic windsurfing regatta, she'd get to hear the Israeli anthem at the medals ceremony. Last week, he kept his promise?and fulfilled Israel's long-unfulfilled hopes of Olympic glory. Fridman sailed to victory in waters as blue as the Star of David on his country's flag, winning Israel's first-ever Olympic gold. "It is," he said, over and over, "a dream come true for the whole country...
...after his win, a fax arrived in Athens for Fridman, from the families of those who died in the Munich massacre. "Dearest Gal," it said, "we were moved to the depth of our souls that you remembered and dedicated our victory to our dear ones." To see the Israeli flag raised and to hear HaTikvah (The Hope), the national anthem, "closed a circle for us and was the realization of a dream...
...Athens round of eight?an empty threat from a guy who looks like he can hardly grow a single whisker. But in their debut game against Spain, Yao bucketed only 12 points, and the Chinese suffered a 83-58 drubbing. After the game, Yao, China's flag bearer at the Olympic opening ceremony, was uncharacteristically despondent about the national squad: "I feel so disappointed. I lost all my hopes for this team." He even publicly considered withdrawing from the national team, sending China's sports propagandists into a tizzy. The Chinese state-run media reported one basketball official accusing...
...including a stable of self-cleaning "five-star" lavatories. Already, Chinese tourists in Athens are sniping about how little Greece has to show off for its Olympics. "Athens is in Europe, but it is quite undeveloped," sniffed Zhao Xiyan, a textile exporter who spent last week waving the Chinese flag at the gymnastics venue. "Beijing will be much better than this." Weight lifter Shi, who hopes to be back for more Olympic glory in four years' time, dutifully listed an expanded highway system and improved English from the city's taxi drivers as his greatest desires for Beijing...
...been preparing for the last six months, and really cramming for only the past month. There's only so much you can do far in advance. The athletes' fortunes change, people do or don't qualify, you don't know who the flag bearers are going to be until the last minute...