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...around each other, diving and springing out like seals, practicing their strokes. It could be any public pool on a warm summer's evening, until you notice first that nobody is bumping into anyone else; and second, that everything is happening at a little over twice normal speed. The giant screens at each end of the pool announce the warm-up session will end in 15 minutes, and it dawns on the ignorant spectator that this is how Olympic swimmers loosen up before a race: not with a couple of lazy stretches, but with a few hundred meters of blindingly...
...Australian invasion is in full flood, streaming through the ticket barriers and swarming into the stands. There are Chinese and Japanese nearby, discreetly waving their flags, but swamping them are green-and-gold boxing kangaroos, Australian flags and banners, and giant hands signaling "No. 1" in Australian colors...
...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 Yao of "splitting" the team and blamed the U.S. and the NBA for corrupting the Chinese giant. Two days later, the two-time NBA all-star's decisive actions proved louder than his dissenting words when he led China to victory against New Zealand with 39 points and 13 rebounds. But the Chinese lost to Argentina 82-57 on Thursday, an undistinguished performance leavened only by the fact that...
...matronly woman with a warbling New England--inflected accent that Katharine Hepburn would have found snobby. And yet, even to my teenage brain, she was clearly a badass. She explained sides of beef by pointing to her own body. She tore at suckling-pig ribs with her giant bare hands. She never edited out any of her mistakes, showing you how to fix them, live with them or bluff. She dropped stuff on the floor, wiped it off and said, "Remember, you're all alone in the kitchen, and no one can see you." She was the Lee Marvin...
...opening ceremony, since word had already leaked out that Thanou was going to be one of the final torch bearers and Kenteris was going to light the Olympic flame. Instead, Nikos Kaklamanakis, a gold medalist in sailing, got the honor. He touched his small flame to a giant, deus ex machina contraption bent over the stadium as if it was getting a light for a cigarette. Very European, that...