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...home of sumo wrestling, marathon running is big. So big that tiny Naoko Takahashi - 163 cms and 47 kg - has already become a national hero. She staked a claim for a place in the pantheon of Japanese sport with her gold medal-winning performance in Sunday's Olympic marathon. Not only did she win, but she recorded a new Olympic record time of two hours, 23 minutes, 14 seconds and scored Japan's first-ever women's athletic gold...
...year-old, who took up the sport because "it looked like fun to me," had defeated the most competitive field to have sought Olympic gold since the women's event was introduced at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Takahashi's main competition was to have come from two Kenyans, Tegla Loroupe and Joyce Chepchumba. As it turned out, it was Romania's Lidia Simon, who had taken bronze in last year's World Championships, who stayed with Takahashi when she broke from the field shortly before the 35-kilometer mark, and held on for the silver medal. Chepchumba, who spent...
...Greene's Olympics is nearly over: All that remains for him in Sydney is the 4x100 relay. Jones, of course, is just beginning. Her mission is to win five gold medals. Her next final, the 200 meters, isn't until Thursday night, so she can take a bit of a break. "Tonight," she said on Saturday, "I will sleep...
...ironically, even though these are definitely role models for your bigger-boned girls everywhere, weight is an issue among them. The winner of the 75-kg class, Colombia's Isabel Maria Urrutia, lifted the same amount as the silver and bronze medalists, but she was awarded the gold because she weighed less. She had lifted in a heavier class until recently when she went to Bulgaria to train. (Bulgaria must have lousy food; a lot of lifters go there to lose weight.) Urrutia won Colombia's first-ever Olympic gold medal in anything, which means she lost all that weight...
...contestants. The creators will gleefully stuff these fatties into their booby-trapped lair and monitor their every move until the weekly climax where the contestant who has lost the least weight is ceremoniously booted from the house. The "Big Dieter" who loses the most weight wins that weight in gold. But alas, there must be a catch. And in the "Big Diet" house, our overstuffed contestants will have to not only survive each other, but also survive a house stocked with everything but carrots and celery. In every corner, there will be pies and pastries, sausage and spam, cotton candy...