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...Greco-Roman rules. Shocked judges reviewed the videotape of the moment. "He made a mistake, and I got a lucky call," said Gardner, who explained that the seeming impossibility of winning allowed him to grapple more conservatively. "He was the one who had to go out and win the gold medal. I would have been tickled pink to win the silver." With five seconds left in overtime, an exhausted Karelin, who was wrestling his third match of the day to Gardner's second, shocked the crowd, which included I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
...Sydney drew closer, modernist Australians seized on the new millennium as a time to confront their colonial past. Look to Cathy, they said. Freeman accepted the responsibility. One way to consider it is, while Marion Jones was trying to win five gold medals for herself and the greater prosperity of Nike Inc., Freeman's crusade had become cosmic. Even before the gun went off, hers had become the most significant race, in a political sense, since Jesse Owens shredded Adolf Hitler's Aryan showcase at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin...
...cosmology surrounding the race got even weirder after the dust had settled. Freeman's individual gold, the first ever won by an indigenous Australian, turned out to be the 100th gold awarded to the country overall. It fairly announced, "Time for a new start." And people were buying into that. After the race, Freeman said, "I'm sure what has happened and what I symbolize will make a lot of difference to people's attitudes. It will change attitudes in the street and in the political forum." An outsider might have thought: fat chance. But by having already spoken...
...that the officials can be blamed. The last time a Greek man won gold in a running event was in the marathon at the very first modern Games in 1896. To find another great Greek sprinter, one probably has to go back to Hermes. Kenteris' gold was Greece's fourth of the Games, including one claimed by national hero Pyrros Dimas, who won in weight lifting (85 kg) for the third consecutive Games...
...were grand plans for the euro to replace the dollar as the currency of choice in international trade. That never developed, and now the euro is on a prolonged descent that all but assures it will remain second fiddle to the buck. Why? To stretch an Olympic metaphor, the gold-medal U.S. economy has been sticking the landing for years, while Europe's economy, like Khorkina, has at times stumbled to the mat. The U.S.'s stability has attracted foreign investment at a brisk pace, tending to bolster the dollar...