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...reason to expect anything different from Athens 2004. With the weight of ancient mythology, Olympic history and western civilization piled on its nervous shoulders, surely the Greeks would give us papier-mache Argonauts fleeing from an angry Zeus robot. Or a children's chorus performing a Zorba medley at the Acropolis. Or at least Yanni. But last Friday, Athens introduced a surprising new element to the show: class, or at least its cousin, restraint. History was referenced by way of crisp video from Olympia, but no actor-Pheidippides stumbled breathlessly into the stadium to recreate ancient Marathon. There...
...freestyle gold and silver, backstroke bronze and a new nickname: L'Or (the Golden) Manaudou. No starburst was more sudden and surprising than that of Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, 22. First, the cherubic swimmer won silver in the 100-m backstroke and bronze in the 200-m individual medley - her troubled country's first medals since 1980, and the first swimming medals ever for any African nation besides South Africa. Then, on Friday, in the final length of the women's 200-m backstroke, Coventry found herself in the lead, but with her stamina flagging and Russia's Stanislava Komarova...
YANA KLOCHKOVA The Ukrainian swimmer, dubbed "the female Phelps," was an Olympic Solidarity athlete before Sydney, where she won double gold in the women's 200-m and 400-m individual medley. Last week, she became the first woman ever to do the double again. "When you do it once, that is very important," she says. "When you win twice and make history, that stays in the record books forever." TSHERING CHHODEN and TASHI PELJOR Bhutan had never won an Olympic match until current OS athletes Chhoden and Peljor scored archery's biggest first-round upsets last week. Chhoden beat...
Things started out well for the U.S. swim team, but medal hopes started to evaporate into the steamy air by the second day in the Greek sun. Phenom Michael Phelps won the country?s first gold medal in the 400m individual medley on Saturday, in world record time (4:08.26), finishing just ahead of Massachusetts native Eric Vendt, who won silver. In the women?s 400m IM, Californian Kaitlin Sandeno made up for her fourth place finish in Sydney by winning the day?s second silver, and Klete Keller claimed bronze for his 3:44.11 in the 400 freestyle...
...other strokes and found that the gangly teen was a quick learner with an uncanny feel for the water. Still, Phelps says, "he took every single stroke and changed it. From Day One, he wanted me to swim multiple events." That meant an early focus on the individual medley--the grueling test of all four strokes, which Phelps picked up with little argument...