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...DIED. JOE GOLD, 82, founder of both Gold's Gym and World Gym, which helped popularize California's "Muscle Beach" workout culture; in Los Angeles. Gold designed and built the bodybuilding machines for the original Gold's Gym in Venice Beach, which counted Arnold Schwarzenegger among its clients. He sold Gold's Gym in the early 1970s, then opened World Gym in 1977; it now has 300 branches worldwide...
...there something in the water? Dénes Kemény can't think of any other explanation for Hungary's stellar record in water polo. From 1928 to 1980, the Hungarian men won medals at every Olympics, taking home gold six times. In 2000, they won their seventh title. "Hungary has lots of spas," says Kemény, who coached the squad to gold in Sydney and hopes to repeat that success at this year's Summer Games. Nature's gift allowed players to train all year round even before the era of indoor swimming pools. But can Hungary...
...several lengths behind speed swimming there: Dutch coaches are unpaid and training facilities woefully inadequate, say the sisters. After failing to qualify for two successive Olympics, they headed for Santa Clara, California, three years ago where they met up with American coach Nathalie Schneyder Bartleson, a 1996 Olympic gold medalist. The move paid off. This year, their last chance to qualify, they finally made the cut. "There's no way we could have done it in the Netherlands," says Bianca. Does being identical twins have anything to do with their success in a sport that demands such precisely choreographed movements...
Breaking All the Rules If there were an Olympic event for irrelevant rulemaking, the E.U. would easily take gold. Last week, two attempts to revamp and reassert regulations were in theory endorsed but in practice ignored. E.U. budget Commissioner Michaele Schreyer had proposed scrapping the U.K.'s 20-year-old rebate from Brussels, worth an average $5.7 billion annually. The payback was negotiated in 1984 by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, when Britain was one of the club's poorest members. The U.K. has since enjoyed unparalleled economic growth - and newer, poorer E.U. members...
DIED. KAROL KENNEDY KUCHER, 72, half of the figure-skating duo known as the Kennedy Kids, who became the first American pair to win a world championship when they captured the gold in London in 1950; of pneumonia; in Seattle. The dominant American pair skaters in the years after World War II, Karol and her elder brother Peter won five consecutive U.S. championships, from 1948 to 1952, and a silver medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics...