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...first time ever, the U.S. women's team won the gold medal at the World Gymnastics Championships, the top international competition behind the Olympics. What's more, it won despite losing three of six members to illness or injury. That's HOLLIE VISE, left, nailing her balance-beam routine; alternate CHELLSIE MEMMEL, right, came off the bench to post the day's highest overall score. Even more surprising, American Paul Hamm, 20, won the men's all-around gold, also a historic first. All of which bodes well for next year's Olympics. We couldn't do worse than last...
...rocks and streams in his native land, following the tracks of his older brother, Abraham, and a phalanx of other Kenyan champions. At last week's World Championships in Athletics in Paris, he not only beat his brother in a thrilling 3,000-m steeplechase; he also scored a gold medal for his home country: Qatar. Qatar? That's right. Last month the lithe 20-year-old middle-distance man swapped his Kenyan passport for a Qatari one and took a new name, Saif Saaeed Shaheen. At the time, the sudden ID change, and a reported salary agreement...
...Qataris are unrepentant. "We're not pioneers on this; we followed the I.A.A.F. rules," says Dahlan Al-Hamad, president of the Qatar Athletic Federation. Though their athletes have been integrated for longer, host France's team includes many foreign-born and naturalized stars, such as long-jump gold medalist Eunice Barber, who came to France after a French diplomat spotted her in her native Sierra Leone. Moroccan-born marathoner Khalid Khannouchi, granted American citizenship in 2000, became the world-record holder two years later. But the track and field apparatus Qatar has gathered as it prepares to host...
...thousands - extremely good for an unknown singer - persuading the label to sign him to a five-year contract. His triumph in New Zealand music competitions led famous judges Sarah Walker and Tom Krause to recommend him to London's Royal College of Music, where he won the college's gold medal. It's not only Lemalu's vast, rolling bass-baritone that has marked him out. "He's got an incredible stage presence and real artistry," says Glyndebourne's executive chairman Gus Christie. The singer himself attributes his confidence to his Western Samoan roots. "My people are not performers...
...NAME: Transvaal NEW NAME: Gauteng Sotho word meaning "Place of Gold" was adopted...