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...more bitterness than the boys," says Dong Jianqing, a judo coach at Qingdao Sports School in eastern China, one of the country's top state-run athletic academies. Dong should know about eating bitterness, the Chinese phrase describing an ability to withstand suffering and deprivation. He mentored several female judoka who went on to win Olympic medals at previous Olympics as well as at these Games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Women Spark a Gold Rush | 8/19/2008 | See Source »

...something called the "Environmental Information Center," a place where earnest volunteers hand out pamphlets trumpeting the green features of these Games. Shockingly enough, while the barbershop was buzzing on Wednesday evening, not a single athlete paid its well-meaning neighbor a visit. You will not hear a Hungarian judoka say to his teammate, "Great practice today, man. Gosh, I'm exhausted. Want to head down to the Environmental Information Center to unwind?" Gold trumps green in the Olympic Village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Village People | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...this as political interference in sporting matters, gave the Iraqi government a deadline in which to reinstate the old committee. Baghdad refused to back down, and now the seven Iraqis who had qualified for the Games - two rowers, an archer, a discus thrower, a sprinter, a weightlifter and a judoka - have been told to unpack their bags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is the IOC Punishing Iraq? | 7/25/2008 | See Source »

...married Japanese pro baseball player and fellow Olympian Yoshimoto Tani in a $3 million Paris wedding that was televised across Japan. Tani's popularity in her home country is as outsized as she is pint-sized, but that only makes the gold-medal pressure on the 1.46-m judoka all the more intense. She was upset in the 1992 and 1996 Games, having to settle for silver on each occasion. At Sydney in 2000, she told reporters she wanted "at best, a gold. At worst, a gold." It was the best of times and the worst of times for Tani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready to Rumble | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

...Since then, Tani has marched to a record sixth straight world championship, and at age 28, remains the preeminent female judoka of her era. A heel injury suffered just a month before the Olympics will make her quest for another gold the most difficult of her career, but Tani's competitiveness has trumped physical pain repeatedly in the past. "She is a born fighter," says Yasuhiro Muto, a judo writer for the Tokyo Chunichi Sports newspaper. "She is a contestant who hates losing. She changes color when it comes to a match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready to Rumble | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

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