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...problem event, the long jump, and she only hits two of six jumps, fouling on four, which is what she does a lot. She just doesn't have the technique down. Her longest fair jump was only good enough for bronze, so her hyped-up quest for five gold medals ends right there...
...started asking them to clap harder before she vaulted. Oof, they lifted her over 5.60m, higher than she's ever gone. So now our Stacy, the world champ, had to clear 5.65. She did, on her first try, and won the first ever women's pole vault gold. "I'm a clean athlete and I earned this," Stacy said afterwards, and I thought how sad it was that an athlete needed to react like that...
...drew closer, the modernist Australians realized it was a new millennium, and the time to make things right was at hand. They looked to Cathy, and told everyone else to look to Cathy. Here's one way to consider it: Last week Marion Jones was trying to win five gold medals for herself and the greater prosperity of the Nike sneaker company. Cathy Freeman hoped to win one for reasons that were positively cosmic...
...cosmology surrounding the race got even weirder once the dust had settled. It turned out Cathy's, the first individual gold ever won by an indigenous Australian, was 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, Cathy 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." I took this down, of course, but I was thinking: good luck...
...surviving commies in Cuba didn't do half badly. They may have failed to lift the prized baseball gold from the Yanquis, but finished in eighth place overall with 29 medals - a remarkable achievement for an impoverished country of 11 million people. Indeed, if each country's medal haul is divided by its population size in millions (which is, after all, its pool of available talent), Cuba comes out the second-place country over all with a remarkable 2.6 ratio. The runaway winners, of course, would be Australia, whose 58 medals divided among 18 million people would give...