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...This year, only long jumper Anju George (who won gold at the 2002 Asian Games), air-rifle markswoman Anjali Bhagwat and doubles tennis players Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi look like serious medal hopes for India. Does that mean the country is sending a small team? Hardly. In 2000, India flew a contingent of 113 people to Sydney, where it won a single bronze in women's weightlifting. This year, expectations are of an even bigger delegation: 78 athletes for 28 sports?significantly bigger than the average Olympic team of 53?and a host of officials, trainers, masseurs and managers...
...terrorist bombings, kidnappings and endemic corruption that plague the Philippines keep foreign investors at bay, but so do restrictive laws. For example, the country has some of the richest deposits of gold, copper and other minerals in the world?natural resources that could be developed using foreign capital. But the Philippine mining industry is stunted by a law enshrined in the constitution that limits foreign investment in mining projects to only 40%. As a result, the country exports only about $630 million of minerals a year, even though the government sees a potential of $5 billion. In January, the Supreme...
...Olympic feat that has not been equaled in 32 years--Mark Spitz's seven gold medals in swimming earned at the 1972 Games in Munich. This month his countryman Michael Phelps will launch an assault on that record, and Spitz, 54, now a Los Angeles stockbroker and entrepreneur, is cheering Phelps on. TIME's Alice Park sat down with the man who set the standard...
...group made infamous by Ben Johnson, disqualified for steroid use in 1988. This year two U.S. sprinters have been suspended by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for doping. And track and field's governing body has recommended suspension for world 100-m champion Torri Edwards. Others, including defending gold medalist Tim Montgomery, are under investigation...
...European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Rome. The theory behind the combo is that human growth hormone signals the liver to secrete more IGF-1, keeping blood levels high. "These athletes know a little bit about how [the hormones] work, and for them, a millisecond could be the difference between gold or nothing," she says. What they don't seem to realize is that circulating IGF-1 is less effective, and more dangerous, than the version that is concentrated in the muscle...