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...competitive than in the past. The U.S. women lost their first three games, then scratched back and beat all the teams that had beaten them. I went to the baseball stadium - sweetest little Triple-A park you've ever seen - to watch the U.S. play Cuba in the gold-medal game. Ben Sheets pitched a beauty and the States won a stunner, 4-0. The Cubans had never lost the Olympic gold. The last scene was precious: Fat old Tommy Lasorda - remember? from the Dodgers? - waddling out, tears in his eyes, to celebrate with his kids, who were...
...wasn't the only case that brought tears, either. Did you hear about the 16-year-old Romanian gymnast Andrea Raducan? She had to give back a gold medal because she took cold medicine for the sniffles - medicine a coach had given her. "We have applied the law," said IOC director general Fran?ois Carrard. "In the fight against doping we have to be tough and refrain from emotions and feelings." Sometimes that's hard...
...some Australians were trying to change the country's thinking on this issue, and slowly Cathy developed into an admired character - not least because she continued to succeed, winning two more world championships and a silver medal at Atlanta. Meantime, she enjoyed a really messy personal life - lawsuits by a former coach/lover, stuff like that. During the messy years she was in shape, then out, too heavy or too thin, on form or off. So Cathy was becoming more of a symbol and more human at the same time. She became a vulnerable crusader...
...surviving commies in Cuba didn't do half badly. They may have failed to lift the prized baseball gold from the Yanquis, but finished in eighth place overall with 29 medals - a remarkable achievement for an impoverished country of 11 million people. Indeed, if each country's medal haul is divided by its population size in millions (which is, after all, its pool of available talent), Cuba comes out the second-place country over all with a remarkable 2.6 ratio. The runaway winners, of course, would be Australia, whose 58 medals divided among 18 million people would give...
Last week the 24-year-old Krayzelburg called on both aspects of his background to win three gold medals and lead an underrated U.S. team to an astounding 33 medals in the pool. In a week in which some big fish got reeled in--Australian sensation Ian Thorpe, Dutch wonderboy Pieter van den Hoogenband and the Russian Rocket Alexander Popov each found himself bettered in one race or another--nobody caught Krayzelburg. Indeed, after a rough start, the rest of the U.S. team outswam the favored Australians, who performed before raucous hometown crowds. Swimming is the Olympics in Australia...