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...China, Liu's ascendancy?along with that of another Chinese hurdler, Shi Dongpeng, who placed fifth at the Zagreb meet?could finally help correct the nation's lackluster track record. In Sydney, China won just one track medal, and that came in the less glamorous sport of racewalking. Japan has a proud history in the marathon, but the klieg lights are far brighter in the sprinting events, and success in Athens would further electrify a nation already riding high on the exploits of exported baseballers, such as Hideki Matsui and Ichiro Suzuki, who have proved that in addition to precise...
...Still, Suetsugu is deliberately ignoring whatever hopes have been raised among his 127 million countrymen. Although he has a fair chance in Athens of winning a medal in the 200-m, Suetsugu has announced that he will concentrate on the 100-m, in which just making the final will be a long shot. His goal: to join the tiny ?lite who can run the 100 in less than 10 seconds. "I don't get as excited about the 200," he shrugs. "I'm after something more valuable than a medal." Like Suetsugu, Liu Xiang is chasing a distinctly personal dream...
...that such breakthroughs may make only a small improvement in performance?but that can be a critical increment. "It's 5%, max," says Dr. Gordon Sleivert, director of sports science and medicine at the PacificSport Canadian Sport Center in Victoria. "But 1% might make the difference between a gold medal and eighth place...
...heat of performance, though, it can be difficult to give the mind sufficient distance to understand what the body may be doing incorrectly. That's where a new generation of video software technology can make a vital difference. When Tara Kirk, a swimmer at Stanford University and Olympic-medal hopeful, was competing in races in 2003, she thought she was keeping her body straight in the water as she swam. Then she had a chance to look at herself on a laptop screen. Using a software program called Dartswim, her coach superimposed a picture of Kirk's technique from...
...Using video analysis to find faults is sometimes only half the battle. Fixing problems is far harder, as Canadian butterfly specialist Mike Mintenko found in Sydney in 2000 after he missed an Olympic medal by a fingernail, finishing fifth in the 100-m final. After analyzing the race, his coach concluded that Mintenko blew it?literally?at the 75-m mark. The analysis showed that Mintenko's shallow breathing after the 50-m turn didn't allow him to maintain enough oxygen to keep his muscles from tiring. In February Mintenko tried out a device, made by Houston-based PowerLung...