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...anomaly amid the city's gleaming new sports cathedrals. Inside, the U.S. and Russian men's volleyball teams faced off for the right to play in Sunday's gold medal match. Their respective fans were whipped into states of shared hysteria and the Chinese joined in, just for the fun of it. Though relations between Washington and Moscow are worse than they have been in two decades, the atmosphere wasn't as tense as the epic U.S.-Soviet Olympic encounters of old. It just seemed that...
Ultimately, the Ruyi always evades discovery. But the real treasure is in experiencing a fun new twist on sightseeing in the Eternal City...
...Justice for Bhopal, which has been camping here since March to demand legal action against the corporation responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, which killed more than 3,000 people. "We're making the police earn their keep," Dhingra says. Life at Jantar Mantar isn't much fun, she admits. Public toilets are filthy and demonstrators have to go to a nearby Sikh temple to shower. Distrustful police and civic authorities "just want us to go away," she says, but protesters are buoyed by strangers who offer money and encouragement...
...that while Jamaica's training facilities might not be First World - Fraser is part of an elite group that practices on a run-down track of grass and tar - its coaches are top flight and its athletes often share a working-class bond. Though Bolt is known for his fun-loving personal style - showcased in his controversial showboating celebration in the final strides of 100 meters victory - he grew up amidst the hardscrabble rural life of Jamaica's bauxite mines. "It's about resilience," says Beckford...
...fun start immediately, when eight riders bunch up atop a three-story hill. At "go," expect a show. "You go 5 ft., then 'kink,' it drops almost straight down, about 60°," says Donny Robinson, the top-ranked rider for the U.S. men. "It's like going down a roller coaster, a 'just hang on' kind of thing." The racers will all be moving at 40 m.p.h., jostling for inside position. Calamities are commonplace: face it; that's part of the appeal. "Anyone here who tells you they haven't crashed is a liar," says fellow American Kyle Bennett...