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Olympic archery gold medalist Kim Kyung Wook knows how demanding her sport can be. But nothing had prepared her for a training session this summer, which had little to do with bows and arrows. In August, coaches forced the nation's top male and female archers to attend a four-day Navy commando training camp at a military base in southwest Korea. Kim easily dealt with hiking along an open sewage ditch, sprinting with a car tire strapped to her back, floating for half an hour in frigid ocean waters and rolling commando-style in mud. But when coaches blindfolded...
...also want to keep the athletes from getting soft. "They think they can be the best without hard training," says Kim Ki Chang, head of the Korean Archery Association. Even Chung Jae Hun, one of the suspended archers, feels Korea should stick with what works. Repentant, the Olympic silver medalist now regrets quitting the camp: "It was a spur of the moment decision. I wouldn't have done it if I'd known I'd get kicked off the team...
You’ve won six NBA championships. You’ve been an MVP, an All-Star MVP, an Olympic gold medalist, a short-lived cartoon on NBC and a star of both an animated AND an IMAX movie. The whole world considers you the greatest basketball player in history. Of course, the whole world forgets how much more dominant Wilt Chamberlain was. But you’ve fooled most...
DIED. DIANA GOLDEN BROSNIHAN, 38, one-legged ski racer and Olympic gold medalist; of cancer; in Providence, R.I. Brosnihan battled cancer throughout her life, losing her right leg at the age of 12. A gifted skier, she refused to give up the slopes and went on to win 19 U.S. titles as a disabled athlete...
...time for the pendulum to swing again. Thus Fulltime Killer, with Lau battling Japanese actor-singer-heartthrob Takashi Sorimachi for the title of "gold medalist of assassins." For once, To and Wai have crafted a parable on the danger of liking your job too much. Tok (Lau) believes murder is an art; after a kill he gestures, hand raised like a matador. What's inside that spray of flowers he's carrying? His mini-Uzi. What does he do in the middle of a lunch date? Run outside, don a Bill Clinton mask, and gun down a half-dozen rivals...