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...territories and city-states?plus the island of Taiwan, which competes under the nebulous title of "Chinese Taipei"?joined the parade of athletes in last Friday's Opening Ceremony of the 28th Olympiad. Some, including the Americans, Russians and Chinese, are hoping to burnish their countries' reputations with bulging medal counts. Others, including Bhutan and East Timor, which is competing for the first time, are simply happy to wave their flags. Unlike high-profile gold-medal hopefuls, many of whom travel with their own personal trainers and a fridge full of optimal training food, athletes from these smaller nations exist...
...This year, only long jumper Anju George (who won gold at the 2002 Asian Games), air-rifle markswoman Anjali Bhagwat and doubles tennis players Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi look like serious medal hopes for India. Does that mean the country is sending a small team? Hardly. In 2000, India flew a contingent of 113 people to Sydney, where it won a single bronze in women's weightlifting. This year, expectations are of an even bigger delegation: 78 athletes for 28 sports?significantly bigger than the average Olympic team of 53?and a host of officials, trainers, masseurs and managers...
...their work will be exploited. "I'm not going to let an insane athlete keep me from curing muscular dystrophy, that's for sure," says Jeffrey Chamberlain, director of muscular-dystrophy research at the University of Washington in Seattle. Patients, after all, have more to lose than a gold medal...
...well with teammate and fellow University of Texas backstroker Aaron Peirsol, who accused Kitajima of using an illegal dolphin kick to help propel him off the wall after turns. ?I was pretty angry after Brendan?s race,? he told reporters following his own backstroke heat. ?That?s [Brendan?s] medal. [Kitajima] knew what he was doing; he was cheating. Instead of gliding off the start, he took a huge dolphin kick to give him extra momentum. He knows we can?t see that. He takes gold and he was cheating.? U.S. team captain Eddie Reese noted that whether...
...Hansen won?t be the only one needing some fuel - finishing third in the relay, while respectable, was less than the U.S. men expected of themselves. ?It?s a little disappointing to get this medal,? said Phelps, who swam the second leg of the relay. ?Obviously, we wanted gold.? Ian Crocker, the lead-off swimmer, was under his usual pace because of a bacterial infection; he?s been fighting a sore throat for three days but decided not to take antibiotics. Bob Bowman, Phelps? coach and the assistant coach for the U.S. men, noted that ?It was a rough night...