Word: kneeing
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...coveted all-around competition, only to be robbed of her chance. Her coaches, in their unified wisdom, decided that one of Galieva's teammates, Tatiana Gutsu, was more likely to bank gold even though she had flubbed during the earlier team competition. So they exaggerated a knee injury to bench Galieva, made a quick substitution and, lo, Gutsu was in. Sure enough, she won the gold. Now Gutsu's triumph, impressive as it was, will always carry a caveat -- "Remember? She didn't even qualify for the all-around." And Galieva will have to digest the bitter lesson that fairness...
...days later when Galieva miraculously came down with a "knee injury" -- thus clearing the way for Gutsu to compete -- it should have revived cold war cynicism. Instead, few rival coaches batted an eye. Indeed, just two weeks before the Olympics, a Pennsylvania gymnast named Kim Kelly, who had fulfilled the competitive requirements to make the U.S. team fair and square, was dropped from the squad by the American coaches to make room for another athlete they felt had greater potential. Kelly considered filing suit, then opted instead to show up in Barcelona, her presence a quiet rebuke of a selection...
...third on the back. Swimmers are working on building up their arms because about 80% of their propulsion through the water comes from the arms' movement. Cyclists now give more attention to their hamstrings, a group of muscles in the back of the thigh. "The hamstrings stabilize the knee and transfer mechanical energy between the joints," explains biomechanist Robert Gregor of the University of California, Los Angeles...
Johnson's success came as a surprise to both the track community and the outside world. Some observers had openly wondered why Reebok, in its much publicized $25 million advertising campaign, had even paired O'Brien with Johnson. A knee injury and Johnson's withdrawal from the world championships last fall seemed to signal his decline. No matter. Reebok needed a foil for its sure thing, O'Brien...
...That's a good one," Bush replied, as if Beck had just got off a real knee slapper. "That is good...