Word: nelsons
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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...
...field of dreams; a shot-put Nirvana." That's the description of this year's shot-put competition, held in the ancient home of the Games in the stadium at Olympia by U.S. silver medallist Adam Nelson on Wednesday. The fact that he'd just suffered a heartbreaking loss of the gold medal to Ukrainian Yuriy Bilonog in the finals seconds did nothing to dim his enthusiasm for an event whose venue captured the magic of the Athens Olympiad. And it was shared by competitors, coaches and spectators...
...laid out, lotion was being applied, pictures were being snapped; it all made for what can be described only as one big lawn party. But for the athletes, the most powerful element was the sense of history afforded by the venue. Said German Raif Bartels, who along with Americans Nelson and Godina, made it to the afternoon's 12-men finals, "We are in the presence of greatness, and it's a true privilege. To think ancient Euros once were here; it's the competition of a lifetime; none of us will ever experience anything like this ever again...
...After Nelson lost the mens' gold by a whisker, and the sun began setting over the hills, a parade of 24 women in simple white sheaths descended from the northeast embankment of the stadium, bearing olive wreaths for each of the 24 finalists. It marked the end of what had been a truly remarkable day for its competitors and witnesses. As one member of the press commented on arriving back in Athens at 2:30 a.m., exactly 24 hours after departing for Olympia: "I'm exhausted, hungry, thirsty and covered in ancient dirt - and I'd do it over again...
...Congregation for today's service of the journey, "a casual, contemporary, Christian church," fills the Promenade, a theater on upper Broadway in New York City. The Sunday-morning faithful--a few hundred strong--have come to hear the Journey's laid-back pastor, Nelson Searcy, give them the word. The word made film. Searcy, 32, who in jeans and a goatee looks like a way less Mephistophelian Charlie Sheen, is about to deliver the last of the church's eight-part God on Film series. The topic? "Catwoman: Discovering My True Identity...