Word: olympiads
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...surely the sport’s biggest upset ever on the international stage. Since 1990 and the inception of the world championships, the United States and Canada had lost only to each other, and were universally forecasted to meet in the gold-medal game for the third straight Olympiad. The Americans captured the inaugural crown in Nagano in 1998 before the Canadians prevailed in 2002, setting up the expected rubber match in Turin. “I’m banged up for them, they’re pretty banged up,” Stone said of her American players?...
...games raced through their indelible final weekend, leaving shattered records and storybook upsets in their wake, 21,000 reporters began trying to set this Olympiad in amber - to identify what made it different from all those that have gone before. But the Summer Games are designed to resist the imposition of narrative. Two hundred and two countries, 301 medal events, 10,500 competitors - one story line? Not likely. And so the teams of Athens 2004 head home telling very different tales. For the Chinese, with their best-ever haul of gold medals, this was the year when the global balance...
...doubters who said the Greeks couldn't - wouldn't - pull off this big show. They could and they did. The nation that has given the world so much drama and so many timeless tales has now added a new volume of rich, unforgettable stories: the Games of the 28th Olympiad...
...These teams are nowhere near the all-time tally of the U.S., which has collected nearly 900 golds. But maybe the elusiveness of Olympic laurels makes these nations' moments of glory even more, well, glorious. Their triumphs offer a rare chance to forget that trite line, trotted out each Olympiad, about how it's a victory just to be here. For once, they're the best. "In the past, you hardly saw any small nations on the medals table," says i.o.c. member Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco, whose 1984 gold in the women's 400-m hurdles...
...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...