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...swagger, however, may be just on hold: the Australian papers are already gearing up for the rumored gold-medal celebration party, which will be stocked with recruits from at least three modeling agencies. The bash is to be held at the Cave, a hot nightclub in a Sydney neighborhood called "Star City" - a place that sounds more like home...
...Daddy's Boys Father usually knows best in tradition-bound Japan, especially if he's a gold-medal Olympian. But Naoya Tsukahara and Akihiro Kasamatsu - sons of two of Japan's most decorated gymnasts - are ready to prove they know a little something, too. "We can compete on our own terms," says the younger Tsukahara, who stars on Japan's Sydney squad along with Kasamatsu junior. "This...
...When the elder Tsukahara and Kasamatsu were competing, Japan was a gymnastics powerhouse that captured the team Olympic gold at each of the Games from 1960 to '76. The pair racked up more than a dozen medals between them. Naoya and Akihiro are competing on a less formidable team that lags behind the dominant Russians and Chinese. Still, Japan's fortunes may finally be changing. At the World Championships in Tianjin, China last year, 23-year-old Tsukahara nabbed the silver in the all-around event. With top Russian gymnast Nikolay Krukov recovering from a pulled Achilles tendon and China...
...first evening of the swimming program, the expectations of millions found perfection in 10 laps of the Olympic pool. Thorpe won two gold medals, broke his own world record for the 400-meter freestyle and shared another world best with three teammates when he anchored Australia's 4 x 100 freestyle relay team to victory over the U.S. - a country that had never failed to win that event at an Olympics. For Thorpe, it had been the "best minute, best hour, best day, best week" of his life. "To be able to dream and to fulfill it is the best...
...night for reviving old rivalries and burying past failures. The Sydney Games' first session of track cycling was tipped as a tussle for gold between France and Australia: Arnaud Tournant and Shane Kelly in the men's 1-km time trial; Felicia Ballanger and Michelle Ferris in the women's 500-meter time trial. For Kelly the crowd wanted more than Olympic glory; after his tragically brief showing at Atlanta, where his foot slipped from the pedal, they wanted to cheer him to gold. After being placed on the track with his shoes already attached to the pedals, Kelly started...