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...jumps, and midair collisions are inevitable. It's a summer version of snowboard cross - the frenzied, TV-friendly race that debuted in Torino in which racers zip down the mountain while navigating tricky jumps and dodging each other. Remember Lindsey Jacobellis, the American who was yards from a gold before she hot-dogged it off a ramp and fell...
...Robinson is the rider to watch. Besides biking for gold, he's shooting to shift the stereotype of extreme-sport athletes. "I hope we can bring some edge," he says. "But we're not a bunch of punk kids riding around town vandalizing stuff." That's nice to know. "I'm not the typical action-sport athlete," he says. "I like to sing and dance. That's who I am; that's my personality...
...gold medalists in recruiting foreign-born athletes are Qatar and Bahrain, tiny oil-rich Gulf states that have poached top runners from Kenya, Morocco, and Ethiopia. The effort took off in the 1990s, when Qatar began importing Bulgarian weight lifters, one of whom, Angel Popov, won a bronze medal in the 2000 Olympics under his adopted Arab name, Saif Saeed Asaad. Since then, Qatar and Bahrain have each shelled out millions of dollars to persuade athletes to change their citizenship, tossing in lucrative incentives for setting world records and bringing home Olympic gold...
Their generous cash-for-gold strategy may pay off this week. Moroccan-born star Rashid Ramzi, now running for Qatar, is a favorite to win the men's 1,500-m race, though he'll be challenged by two Kenyans running for Qatar and Bahrain under new Arab names. Two other medal favorites going into the Games' final weekend are Bahrain's Ethiopian-born 1,500-m specialist Maryam Yusuf Jamal and Qatar's Kenyan-born marathoner Mubarak Hassan Shami, who will have to beat out former teammates who know him by his birth name, Richard Yatich...
Granted, there are 630 million of them. But practically everywhere you looked during these Beijing Games, there was another Chinese woman - and a few girls - with a gold medal slung around her neck. By Aug. 19, China's female Olympians had captured 23 of the country's 43 golds, nearly the same amount as the entire American team had garnered. (By contrast, female athletes have won only 11.5 of America's 26 gold medals. The half refers to the mixed team equestrian event...