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...performance was surely more honorable than that of Uzbekistan's Olga Shchukina, who not only finished last in her qualifying group in the shot put but later tested positive for an anabolic steroid, or Iranian flag bearer Arash Miresmaeili, who deliberately missed his qualifying weight in the 66-kg judo event after discovering the draw pitted him against an Israeli...
...every hue. Victories came in China's usual strongholds of diving (three golds so far), shooting (eight medals), weight lifting (six medals) and table tennis (four medals). But China also collected laurels in sports in which it barely had a presence a decade-and-a-half ago, like judo and fencing, as well as coming back in disciplines such as swimming, where the nation is desperate to expunge its drug-tainted past with a new crop of far less hulking female swimmers. On Wednesday, 20-year-old Luo Xuejuan frog-kicked her way past Australian world-record holder Leisel Jones...
...including a gold in the 200-m backstroke. Equally impressive, in the men's team-gymnastics final, the Japanese, whose spiky 'dos made them look as if they were sponsored by a hair-gel company, flipped past favorites China, Romania and the U.S. for a surprise win. And in judo?a sport that Japan invented and is always expected to dominate? Japanese fighters grappled their way to eight golds and two silvers, the country's best Olympic result ever...
...course in my heart, it hurt to lose," Alassane says. But the point of this trip for Alassane - and for Olympic Solidarity (OS), the scholarship program that has given him more than $20,000 for training and travel over the past 18 months - was to get a masterclass in judo. Krnac went on to win the silver. "I've seen that there's a much higher level," Alassane says. The OS program is designed to help him, and 584 other Athens Olympians, reach that level. During the past two years, the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) has plowed $13.7 million into...
...convinced that their genes prevented them from winning high-piston track events like the sprints or hurdles. Conventional wisdom held that the limber, compact Asian body was better designed for sports that required dexterity and precision. Hence China's dominance in gymnastics and diving, Japan's killer hold in judo or South Korea's command over archery and Taekwondo. Asians sometimes performed respectably in middle- and long-distance track competitions, but there was a tendency to chalk this up to mental toughness, not their natural physical gifts. "Asians are not as inherently talented in sports that require speed, energy...