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...gold medal that got away may have been galling for the Chinese. At the Watersports World Championships in Melbourne, which ended on April 1, China completely dominated the diving competition, with its male athletes taking nine out of 10 golds on offer and bagging several silvers and bronzes too. Their one failure came in the sport's blue-ribbon event: the 10-meter board competition. China's formidable sports machine knows that it only has itself to blame for that loss. But it was willing to lose a gold to enforce a rigid discipline on its prized athletes...
...same day that China lost the 10-meter event he had made his own, Tian bowed to the inevitable and announced his retirement from diving. The bureaucrats had evidently decided to make an example of Tian to other errant athletes - even if it means losing a precious gold medal...
...Crimson coach Peter Brand said. “The depth of their roster was something I have not seen in quite a long time. In each weapon, in each event, they had literally a world-class fencer.”Hagamen locked up his first individual medal in New Jersey by winning 19 of 22 bouts, beating out the second and third-place finishers by just one victory. The final bout could not have been closer. The Crimson’s captain beat out Notre Dame’s Patrick Ghattas, 15-14, to become just the fourth men?...
...When I was nine," Jimmy says, "my dad insisted I be circumcised to minimize wind resistance." In his early maturity he has soft curls and a winsome grace; Chazz sneers that he looks "like a 15-year-old girl, but not hot.") When Jimmy is stripped of his gold medal, his father immediately "unadopts" him and dumps the kid at the side of a highway. Even his No. 1 fan, against whom Jimmy has a restraining order, complains that "It's embarrassing stalking a has-been...
...favorite bits, and long soft spots. I liked the star skaters' ferociously competitive idiocy. Demonstrating his skin-scalding machismo, Chazz skates on bare feet, then Jimmy does the human luge on his bare chest. The on-ice routines (overseen by Sarah Kawahara, who choreographed some of Michelle Kwan's medal-winning performances) are both plausible and funny. Craig T. Nelson, as the boys' coach, is neither - why is he in a comedy? In this movie, the inspired bits and the misfired ones are so close to each other, you wonder if anybody involved with it knew the difference, or cared...