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...Canadians took the second and third sets, then the fourth went to a tie-breaker. The Woodies expired quietly: two straight double faults. It was sad. Then, a few minutes later, it wasn't sad at all. After the medal ceremony, Mark, the one who's retiring, gave a little wave to the crowd, and the love rained down. They wouldn't let the Woodies leave the court. It was beautiful...
Sometimes you judge a sport not by what happens on court but by what happens in the stands. For in the U.S.vs. Australia women's gold-medal basketball match, the on-court action was scrappy, sloppy and churlish. But what was happening among these fans of basketball was nothing but pure exhilaration...
...expected American blowout as the U.S. claimed its second consecutive gold medal, but the Aussie crowd didn't let that ruin their "Ozzie, Ozzie, Ozzie, Oi, Oi, Oi" good cheer. As the fouls and glares piled up on court, the fans simply started their own fun, cheerfully ribbing U.S. men's champs Kevin Garnett and Alonzo Mourning - who was so taken by Sydney that he gave the city's name to his newborn daughter, Myka Sydney - as the towering duo sat in the stands holding aloft a hand-drawn sign more suited to a junior-high pep rally: USA Came...
...None of that really mattered to Aussie captain Michele Timms, a feisty guard with spikey blond hair, who ran into the stands to collapse in her grandparents' arms. "We tried," she whispered, as her grandmother smoothed her hair. As Timms headed back on court to prepare for the silver-medal ceremony, an American fan reached out. She wore a bright pattern of the Stars and Stripes on her sleeve, but her heart was with the Aussie basketballer. "It's okay," she said. "It's okay...
...divas must get their due and Khorkina stomped all over the competition during the uneven bars event final. Afterwards, she puffed, "I give this medal to the people of Russia. I will never forgive what they have done to me here, but this is for the people who need this, of people who need to be uplifted." I'm thinking, "Dude, Svetlana. Come on now. An uneven bars gold medal is nice and pretty, but I don't think it's going to erase a decade of oppression...