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...Lebron James as no. 1 athlete to Watch? Few nations outside the U.S. care much for basketball, let alone have LeBron on their "must watch" list. And who outside the U.S. has even heard of Dara Torres? Your parochial article was anything but an insight into the global Games. Alex Holmes, Toronto, New South Wales...
Wait, is that the lanky Utah Jazz forward and Russian basketball star Andrei Kirilenko in the chair, knees almost hitting his chin? Why, yes it is. You'll never see LeBron in the salon, since the U.S. basketball team is once again shunning the Village, opting for the comforts of Beijing's five-star InterContinental hotel. Kirilenko, who will make $15 million this season, says the Village facilitates team bonding, but he won't knock the U.S. for its élitism. "You get used to doing things a certain way," he says. "It's all right." With basketball's popularity...
When Dara Torres, now 41, first set the world record for the 50-m freestyle in 1983, LeBron James hadn't even been born. The arc of athletic celebrity has changed. You can be a star at 15 and again at 41. Torres' remarkable swimming comeback and James' single-minded determination to bring back the gold medal in basketball are so compelling, yet so different, that we decided to do two TIME covers to show the breadth of our Olympic preview, which begins on page 44. And as evidence of our global reach, TIME's Asian-edition cover features Chinese...
More Olympic Coverage For expanded profiles of our 100 athletes, a video interview with LeBron James and dispatches from Beijing during the Olympics, go to time.com/olympics
...signs, along with Tibetan scrolls of the Buddha. It strikes me that an American psychic in New York City must regard it as a coup to be seen in public with an Indian customer like me - the same rush that a white basketball trainer would get if LeBron James stopped by for a lesson...