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...team suffered as much agony as Israel before achieving golden ecstasy. At the 1972 Games in Munich, Palestinian gunmen stormed their quarters at the Olympic Village, killing 11 athletes and coaches. Every Israeli grows up hearing about the Munich martyrs, and each Olympic team pays its respects at a Tel Aviv memorial before heading off to the Games. "We don't stop," says Israeli Olympic Committee president Zvi Varshaviak. "We've been waiting a long time...
...Fridman spoke out for peace after collecting his medal, saying, "If you want to fight someone, fight in sports." But he doesn't want to talk politics. His decision to dedicate his win to the Munich dead was emotional, patriotic, but not political. "As an athlete," he says, "I don't think that should be the focus at all." Asked about Fridman's win, the Palestinians, too, tried to steer clear of politics?and only partially succeeded. Team leader Akram Zaher praised the Israeli's achievement: "He worked hard to get his medal. I just ask his government, to give...
...Maybe sport can heal some wounds. Shortly after his win, a fax arrived in Athens for Fridman, from the families of those who died in the Munich massacre. "Dearest Gal," it said, "we were moved to the depth of our souls that you remembered and dedicated our victory to our dear ones." To see the Israeli flag raised and to hear HaTikvah (The Hope), the national anthem, "closed a circle for us and was the realization of a dream...
...Power - not just in the pool but in cycling and shooting. "Women generally in sport aren't perceived as well as men are," Henry said after her 100-m freestyle win, "and women who get up and do as well as men are great." Gould, the Golden Girl from Munich in 1972, reckons Australia's women swimmers are looking darn good these days: "We've got more ranked in the Top 10 than there has been for quite a number of years," she says, "and part of that is because of excellent coaching education, and coaches willing to experiment...
Stojkovic, who fled Yugoslavia in 1991 just before the Balkan wars broke out, is on the front lines of the cloning wars. He helped clone mammals at the University of Munich before going to Britain. Now, using a technique similar to one recently demonstrated in South Korea, he plans to create embryos by injecting a patient's DNA into an egg from which the genetic material has been removed. He then hopes to harvest the embryonic stem cells--which can develop into almost any organ--and coax them to produce insulin in diabetics. Stem cells may also hold promise...