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...dreams; a shot-put Nirvana." That's the description of this year's shot-put competition, held in the ancient home of the Games in the stadium at Olympia by U.S. silver medallist Adam Nelson on Wednesday. The fact that he'd just suffered a heartbreaking loss of the gold medal to Ukrainian Yuriy Bilonog in the finals seconds did nothing to dim his enthusiasm for an event whose venue captured the magic of the Athens Olympiad. And it was shared by competitors, coaches and spectators...
...that their work will be exploited. "I'm not going to let an insane athlete keep me from curing muscular dystrophy, that's for sure," says Jeffrey Chamberlain, director of muscular-dystrophy research at the University of Washington in Seattle. Patients, after all, have more to lose than a gold medal...
...Karolyi live here. Once a month, they open their 2,000-acre spread to a few elite gymnasts in an effort to return the U.S. to the glory of 1996. That was the year Martha coached the U.S. women's squad--the Magnificent Seven--to its first-ever team gold. You wouldn't know it, since her husband Bela, the coach of two of those gymnasts, got all the attention. And that was fine with Martha. "It's not me to be center page," she says. But as national team coordinator, Martha plans to repeat her Olympic feat...
Most sports select their Olympians through open competitions, but USA Gymnastics has privatized the process, leaving it up to Martha and a two-member selection committee to handpick most of the young women who represent the U.S. It's a controversial system, but the logic is compelling: to win gold medals in gymnastics, you need a Karolyi...
...Martha has her dream team--an inspiring mix of veterans like Bhardwaj, a college graduate, and newcomers like McCool. In fact, USA Gymnastics may have its best shot for gold since 1996. "This is the deepest team I remember having since 1984," says Martha. "We are proving to the world that gymnastics is not only for tiny, bouncy baby girls, but it's also possible to be done very well after ages 20 and up if you do the right preparation." And if you keep a Karolyi in command. --With reporting by Kristin Kloberdanz/Huntsville