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...Other countries that had previously won minor medals joined the golden league for the first time. Felix Sanchez gave the Dominican Republic a gold with his win in the men's 400-m hurdles. Taiwan, which competes as Chinese Taipei, won its first two golds, both in taekwondo. And on the tennis courts, Chile swept all comers to take both men's titles. First, Nicolas Mass? and Fernando Gonz?lez won the doubles, sparking nationwide rejoicing back home. A day later, Mass?, who had lost all of his hardcourt matches this season before Athens, returned to defeat American Mardy Fish...
...have good confidence in my skills," Fridman says, and it showed out on the water. In second place going into the 11th and final race, he had racked up enough points to secure a medal, but needed some alchemy - or at least some wiles - to turn it gold. When regatta leader Ricardo Santos of Brazil latched onto him at the start, says Fridman, "I decided to take him where the wind was not the strongest." It was a winning move: Santos faded with the wind and couldn't keep up, whereas Fridman muscled back into a better position. "When...
...race in Italy; Crawford was disqualified after the disguise blocked his sight, causing him to stray from his lane. In early 2003 he appeared on Fox's Man Vs. Beast TV special, losing to a zebra. And last week, after coming within .04 seconds of a 100-metres gold medal, and .01 seconds of a bronze, the 26-year-old Crawford didn't 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...
...Welcome to the new track and field: humble, young, fast and - to this point at least - clean. The U.S. ran wild last week, taking home 24 track and field medals, 8 of them gold. The rest of the world had its moments: Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell won two sprint golds, again cementing the Caribbean's niche in sprinting. And Greece's Fani Halkia thrilled the host country by winning the 400-m hurdles. But the Americans swept both the men's 400- and 200-meters, finished one-two in the long jump and the pole-vault, and won gold...
...trip to Greece. Sure, Marion Jones was in Athens, but she came home without a medal. And plenty of track athletes cheated - Greece's two big-name sprinters failed to show up for a drug test, while the Russian winner of the women's shot-put and the Hungarian gold medalist in the men's discus event lost their medals after drug tests. But the Americans escaped unscathed. "The sport was going to remain under a dark cloud until we did phenomenal things," says long-jump champ Dwight Phillips, who as a teenager broke both legs after backpedaling into...