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...Alice Piacentini of Prospect, Ohio, flew with her husband, four children ranging then from six to 14, and her parents-in-law to the 9,100-sq.-mi. park in northern Ontario. While everyone in the family was thrilled by the bears, they were even more affected by Sam Hunter, their Cree guide, and his family www.icebeartours.com) The best part of the trip, Piacentini says, was "the respect for the land and animals that we gained through their eyes, by hearing their stories, by seeing them on the tundra. We did not want to leave the people we had come...
...While most eyes were on the harbor, the first gold medal was awarded elsewhere. It went to an American (no surprise) in women's 10-meter air rifle (huge surprise). Nancy Johnson's dad was "a big hunter when I was growing up in Downers Grove, Ill., and he encouraged me when I joined a juniors program at a rifle club three blocks away." She was 15 then. She's 26 now - and a champion. At another outback venue, the velodrome, Australian cyclist Michelle Ferris took silver in the 500-meter time trial...
Nonetheless, the cloddish European press labeled the pair "Beauty and the Beast" last summer during the world championships in Seville, where Jones won the 100 m and Hunter won the shot. The Aussies will be more polite. "I don't know if it will be fun, exactly," says Jones, having told the makeup artist she'll use her scrunchy because rubber bands ruin her hair. "It won't be an easy ordeal, but it should be exciting." She's about to find out. And, luckily...
Jones sees the 320-lb. Hunter as a teddy bear; the press sees him more as a grizzly. When a journalist asked Jones last year if it was true that "your mother is not happy about your wedding," Hunter, a man of few words, drew the scribe aside for a lesson in etiquette: "You are a f___ing idiot...
...Hunter, a gold-medal prospect in the shot put, is clearly reticent as he hovers around the edges of the photo shoot. He has smiles only for his wife. Jones is easygoing with him as she smooths his shirt. She teases him and hardly seems in thrall to a Svengali. His career advice to her has been sage. He counseled Jones to quit basketball for track and brought in her coach, Trevor Graham...