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...during the scorching morning races. Add the lure of an athlete who might be undone by his own hubris, and you have an Athens experience that's hard to match. In the end, American teenager Michael Phelps did not reach the prize he was aiming for - the most gold medals won in a single Games - but it would be churlish to suggest that his haul of six gold and two bronze was anything less than spectacular. And the fans who streamed into the Aquatic Center - which was sold out every evening, unlike so many other venues - saw a week...
YANA KLOCHKOVA The Ukrainian swimmer, dubbed "the female Phelps," was an Olympic Solidarity athlete before Sydney, where she won double gold in the women's 200-m and 400-m individual medley. Last week, she became the first woman ever to do the double again. "When you do it once, that is very important," she says. "When you win twice and make history, that stays in the record books forever." TSHERING CHHODEN and TASHI PELJOR Bhutan had never won an Olympic match until current OS athletes Chhoden and Peljor scored archery's biggest first-round upsets last week. Chhoden beat...
...guts beat grace. Thursday night at Athens' Olympic Indoor Hall, Carly Patterson bounced back from a klutzy performance in the team event and pranced, pirouetted and double-piked her way to gold in gymnastics' marquee event, the women's individual all-around competition. The 16-year-old pocket dynamo from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, became the first American woman to claim the medal since Mary Lou Retton in 1984. "You dream about this your whole life," she marveled afterwards. "Then you win the gold medal." Or you dream about it your whole life, then lose. That's what happened to Patterson...
...Later that afternoon, Russian Irina Korzhane became the first, and perhaps only woman, ever to win a gold at Olympia. "I've been doing this for fifteen years," she said following her victory. "It's a great feeling to be part of history...
...After Nelson lost the mens' gold by a whisker, and the sun began setting over the hills, a parade of 24 women in simple white sheaths descended from the northeast embankment of the stadium, bearing olive wreaths for each of the 24 finalists. It marked the end of what had been a truly remarkable day for its competitors and witnesses. As one member of the press commented on arriving back in Athens at 2:30 a.m., exactly 24 hours after departing for Olympia: "I'm exhausted, hungry, thirsty and covered in ancient dirt - and I'd do it over again...