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...certainly a proud legacy. Because of?or despite?the bizarre training, South Korea dominates international archery. Its women are by far the best in the world, having won every Olympic gold medal?team and individual?since 1984, when the country first competed in Olympic archery. Its men also consistently rank among the top medalists: they took three of the four golds last year in Sydney...
...Elizabeth, South Africa. He was released from prison in 1987 and, seven years later, won a seat in Parliament in South Africa's first all-race elections. DIED. DIANA GOLDEN BROSNIHAN, 38, avid skier who lost a leg to cancer at age 12 but persevered and won a gold medal in disabled skiing at the 1988 Calgary Olympics; of cancer, in Providence, Rhode Island. Brosnihan persuaded the U.S. Ski Association to allow disabled skiers to compete against able-bodied skiers, and in 1997 she was inducted into the Women's Sports Foundation International Hall of Fame. DIED. MICHAEL DERTOUZOS...
Women do the pole vault? Yes indeed. And an American cowgirl turned vaulter, Stacy Dragila, 30, does it better than anyone ever thought a woman could. The California native has owned the event since it became internationally accepted, including taking the first-ever women's pole vault gold medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney last September and capturing her second World Championship three weeks ago in Edmonton, Canada...
...work has also just been published: Love That Dog (HarperCollins), an innovative novel in free verse for kids ages 8 to 12. Creech has been dazzling critics since 1995, when Walk Two Moons, her first children's book to be published in the U.S., won the prestigious Newbery Medal, the Academy Award of children's books. "To win the Newbery Medal on your first book is an astounding feat," says Diane Roback, the children's editor at Publishers Weekly. "She is one of these writers whose subsequent books have very much lived up to the accolades...
South Africa’s Hestrie Cloete won her nation’s only gold medal of the championships after clearing heights of 1.85, 1.90, 1.94 and 1.97 meters on consecutive jumps and then two meters on her second try. Ukraine’s 34-year-old champion Inha Babakova matched Cloete’s performance at two meters but was left with silver because she needed two attempts at 1.97 meters. Sweden’s Kajsa Bergqvist, the 2001 IAAF indoor champion whose peak performance was 1.97 meters on the day, earned the bronze...