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...three world records in the women's 69-kg category in weight lifting. Four years after China sent its first-ever female field-hockey team to the Olympics, the Chinese became the first squad in Athens to win a semifinal berth. As of Saturday, the 3-0 Chinese team hadn't conceded a single goal. Although China's field-hockey program for women was founded in 1980, the program languished for years, relying on uninspired castoffs from local basketball and soccer teams. That changed dramatically in 2001, when Beijing was awarded the 2008 Games and funding kicked into high gear...
...profile Olympic chokes in previous Games, most recently Tsukahara's meltdown in Sydney, when he plunged off the pommel horse and ruined his chances of a medal in the individual all-round event. "I'm very sorry," he said, in a common refrain from Japanese Olympians. "I wish I hadn't disgraced my nation." Four years later, Tsukahara has broken free from these emotional shackles. "Yes, I'm happy for my country," he said, just minutes after accepting his first-ever Olympic gold. "But I'm also happy for my family, my coach, my friends and even myself." Teammate Hiroyuki...
...John Kerry for President campaign: a balmy summer Sunday evening that found the newly official Democratic nominee playing a few carefree innings of softball with fire fighters and autoworkers on a small-town diamond in the heartland. But unknown even to some of Kerry's top aides, something that hadn't been written into the script was quietly taking place inside the luxury campaign bus parked just beyond right field in Taylor, Mich. Secret Service agents were laying secure phone lines, hanging privacy curtains and installing high-tech gear so Kerry could get a top-secret, 40-min. briefing...
...HADN'T ACHIEVED SUCH SUCCESS AS A SWIMMER, WOULD YOU BE DOING SOMETHING ELSE? I'd probably be an astronaut, just to have the thrill of seeing what it would be like to go around the earth like that. At one time I fantasized about being the first Olympic astronaut. But I think I would get an unparalleled amount of resistance on that from my family...
...bookstores every day, stand in the aisles and study the works of great photographers. I quickly learned that Cartier-Bresson was the foundation of contemporary photography. I looked at his pictures every day, sometimes for hours at a time. They never got old. There was always something I hadn't seen before, a hidden meaning right there on the surface, a new formal insight, a sudden smile, a subtle barb aimed at hypocrisy...