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...gymnasts, are plucked from normal life around first grade and deposited into sports schools, where they train up to nine hours a day and spend what little downtime they have imbibing communist propaganda. So it was for Tian Liang and Guo Jingjing, Chinese divers who are favored to win gold medals in Athens. It was the state, after measuring their narrow hips and flexible tendons, that decided the couple would somersault into the water for a living. At the time, they were just seven years old. Tian remembers his first terrifying free fall off the 10-m platform...
...marketing firm in Shanghai. "But in the past couple of years, athletes have been allowed to express themselves as individuals, even promoting brands instead of the state." Indeed, more often than not, the mainland's most popular athletes are now picked by the free market. Liu Xuan, a pert gold medalist at the Games in Sydney, works as a model and starred as a plucky migrant worker in a movie called Far from Home. Fellow gymnast Li Xiaoshuang has recorded an album of pop ditties. Fu Mingxia, the legendary diver who first struck gold as a teddy-bear-carrying...
...with him," says Norway's Kjersti Plätzer, the 2000 Olympic silver medalist in the women's 20 km, "he walks and I run. He's a god - the walker." In Athens, Korzeniowski, the best racewalker of all time, will seek to gild his greatness with one last gold. He already holds three world titles and three Olympic golds, including two from 2000, when he became the first man ever to sweep the 20-km and 50-km races. He hasn't lost at 50 km, his specialty, since 1999. And he's set a new record...
...tall Korzeniowski's is a trim 62 kg) to readying the right electrolyte-replacement drinks (he'll consume 4 L of those and 4 L of water). "There are no surprises," he says. "If I don't win, there was something wrong with my plan of action." One last gold would not only cement his place as walking's greatest, but also boost his post-Athens work - promoting walking and fitness. "Walking develops the whole body. And it's a cheap sport!" he says, in full salesman mode. "You can train anytime, anywhere." He has helped to start eight athletics...
...inner inn is spreading across top-tier hospitality brands. Take the Fairmont Washington, D.C., which touts the Toronto-based chain's premium service as a "hotel within a hotel." In addition to the 48 elegantly furnished rooms, the hotel's concierges are expected to do the unexpected. Says Fairmont Gold concierge Clarence McLeod: "We're called upon without any notice to provide last-minute miracles. Sometimes I feel like Superman. I can conquer anything." All starting at $329 a night. For the chains, creating these special sanctums is a response to the popularity of boutique hotels, which have siphoned...