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...contention. Dawes and Miller, two stoic 19-year-olds, each made a major flub on the floor exercise and walked off sobbing, aware that their medal chances had vanished. That allowed the elfin Ukrainian Lilia Podkopayeva, the reigning world champion, to edge past three tough Romanians to win the gold...
...find a mother lode of gold in the pool, enough to satisfy even the most jingoistic sports fan. But the medal-count table has about as much soul as the meter on a cab, the rate on the back of a hotel-room door, the total on a cash register--numbers that dominated conversations in Atlanta. When the women of the U.S. gymnastics team did something none of their predecessors had ever done, their collective effort, and the spirit of Kerri Strug, transcended metallurgy. They went higher...
...another press conference last week, after weightlifter Zhan Xugang of China won the 154-lb. gold medal, his coach, Yang Han Xiong, was asked why Zhan added more weight to the bar in the clean and jerk (bringing it up to a world record 430 lbs.) even after he had clinched the gold medal at 424 lbs. "The Olympic spirit is faster, higher, stronger," said Yang. "So we tried...
...into first during Tuesday night's finals on the strength of six nearly flawless performances on the uneven parallel bars and another six strong ones on the balance beam. They held their own on the floor exercise, and with one event remaining, the vault, the first U.S. team gymnastics gold medal ever was all but assured, barring disaster...
Team spirit propelled the U.S. men temptingly close to a medal as well. Never as highly regarded as the women, they nonetheless performed better than expected, staying in the medal hunt almost to the end and finishing a respectable fifth. (Russia captured the gold.) In the individual competition, national champion John Roethlisberger pumped up the crowd with his intensity but couldn't match the grace of China's Li Xiaoshuang, who nudged out Russia's Alexei Nemov for the gold...