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PAUL HAMM, individual all-around Olympic gold medalist in men's gymnastics, after going before the Court of Arbitration for Sport to defend his medal, challenged because of a scoring mistake...
...strengths and their weaknesses, just like any other college does. Budding actors go to Yale, budding mathematicians to Harvard. You probably won’t see a future first-round NBA draft pick playing for the Crimson, but you might see a future women’s hockey gold medalist. Harvard may not be as exceptional a place as it’s made out to be. Nevertheless, debunking Harvard to your friends is different from debunking Harvard to the world...
...lauding the pixies, success for the U.S. men is less familiar. Just compare the reactions: after the U.S. men's team won its first team medal--a silver--in a nonboycotted Olympics, the guys were bumping chests. Second place. Wow! At the end of their team final, the silver-medalist women sat glumly on the bench, glaring at Romania's Catalina Ponor as she shimmied for her clapping teammates, knowing the gold was a lock...
This was one Olympic site that had been completed ahead of schedule--by some 2,500 years. It was free of commerce and awash in sportsmanship. In other words, it was unlike an Olympic event, ancient or modern. It was, as U.S. silver medalist Adam Nelson called it, "shot put Nirvana," held in the house of Zeus. With the sun rising over verdant hills, crowds streamed into the ancient grounds of Olympia, 200 miles west of Athens, for the shot put competition. With no stands and no scoreboard, the stadium stood as it had in A.D. 393, when...
...first marquee race of the track-and-field events, was always going be Ethiopia's. The only question was which Ethiopian: the popular two-time gold medalist Haile Gebrselassie, 31, or the astonishing young Kenenisa Bekele, 22? In just nine days last spring, Bekele smashed Gebrselassie's records in both the 10,000 m and the 5,000 m. Perhaps, though, the wily old campaigner had one last victory...