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...more competitive than in the past. The U.S. women lost their first three games, then scratched back and beat all the teams that had beaten them. I went to the baseball stadium - sweetest little Triple-A park you've ever seen - to watch the U.S. play Cuba in the gold-medal game. Ben Sheets pitched a beauty and the States won a stunner, 4-0. The Cubans had never lost the Olympic gold. The last scene was precious: Fat old Tommy Lasorda - remember? from the Dodgers? - waddling out, tears in his eyes, to celebrate with his kids, who were...
...wasn't the only case that brought tears, either. Did you hear about the 16-year-old Romanian gymnast Andrea Raducan? She had to give back a gold medal because she took cold medicine for the sniffles - medicine a coach had given her. "We have applied the law," said IOC director general Fran?ois Carrard. "In the fight against doping we have to be tough and refrain from emotions and feelings." Sometimes that's hard...
Sometimes you judge a sport not by what happens on court but by what happens in the stands. For in the U.S.vs. Australia women's gold-medal basketball match, the on-court action was scrappy, sloppy and churlish. But what was happening among these fans of basketball was nothing but pure exhilaration...
...expected American blowout as the U.S. claimed its second consecutive gold medal, but the Aussie crowd didn't let that ruin their "Ozzie, Ozzie, Ozzie, Oi, Oi, Oi" good cheer. As the fouls and glares piled up on court, the fans simply started their own fun, cheerfully ribbing U.S. men's champs Kevin Garnett and Alonzo Mourning - who was so taken by Sydney that he gave the city's name to his newborn daughter, Myka Sydney - as the towering duo sat in the stands holding aloft a hand-drawn sign more suited to a junior-high pep rally: USA Came...
...Timms looked up, at the American with the flag T shirt, at the crowd decked out in the Aussie colors of green and gold, and she smiled. That weak grin was an echo of Maurice Greene, of Cathy Freeman, of Steve Redgrave. But most of all, it reflected the emotions in the stands, where normal people saw hope and glory on the court and cherished every moment of Olympic history...