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...Sydney, Italy won its first Olympic gold medal in the pool - and tripled the stash by the end of the week. While Domenico Fioravanti won the breaststroke double, it was his compatriot Massimiliano Rosolino who will stay in the memory of swimming fans. Following a silver medal in the 400-m freestyle behind Thorpe and bronze behind the freakish duo in the 200-m freestyle, the 22-year-old Neapolitan stormed past American Tom Dolan to take gold in the 200-m individual medley. The crowd roared in rapture. The likable Italian, who lived in Australia as a child, danced...
...with each stunning deed, Ian Thorpe changes the way we think about champions. At his first Olympic Games, the 17-year-old Australian is driving through the water at Sydney's International Aquatic Centre like swimming's gift from the gods. "He was born to swim," said Italian Massimiliano Rosolino, who finished second to Thorpe in Saturday's 400-meter freestyle final. "I think he can still get better. Who knows? I hope for himself that he does. I hope for myself that he doesn...
...Popular Culture, an issue devoted chiefly to U.S. circuses, carnivals and fairs, and intended "to introduce the carnival to the social scientist." Three of the contributors have ties to the carnival or circus worlds: Sociologist Marcello Truzzi of New College in Sarasota, Fla., whose father was the juggler Massimiliano Truzzi; Sociologist Patrick Easto of Eastern Michigan University, whose mother was a carnival stripper; and Social Psychologist Theodore Dembroski of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, who was born into a carnival family and takes a job as a carnival worker, or "carnie," every summer...