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...JUDO When she was a teenage schoolgirl with an 84-match unbeaten streak, judo master Ryoko Tani was known as Ryoko Tamura; she changed her name last December when she married Japanese pro baseball player and fellow Olympian Yoshimoto Tani in a $3 million Paris wedding that was televised across Japan. Tani's popularity in her home country is as outsized as she is pint-sized, but that only makes the gold-medal pressure on the 1.46-m judoka all the more intense. She was upset in the 1992 and 1996 Games, having to settle for silver on each occasion...
...matter how ingenious the gear or the gadget, technology has its limits. What makes an Olympian a winner depends mainly upon muscle strength, stamina, skill and desire. Still, with history being made by the millisecond in Athens, athletes can use all the technological help?and all the extra red blood cells?they...
...watch for a sibling square-off; sister Emily qualified in the same event. THE COMPETITION Few will be able to parry Jacobson's advances to gold in this event's Olympic debut (a cavalryman's discipline, it joins foil and epee). But Russia's Elena Netchaeva and first-time Olympian Anne-Lise Touya of France will certainly...
...time," says the 36-year-old on the eve of her fourth Olympics. "If windsurfing wasn't fun, I would have given it up ages ago. It definitely does have its hard times, but it is in essence a fun sport." Kendall is New Zealand's most successful female Olympian. She won the inaugural women's boardsailing competition at the 1992 Barcelona Games, and followed it up with a silver medal in Atlanta and a bronze in Sydney. In a small, sailing-mad country, Kendall has managed to remain a "golden girl" after almost two decades on the professional circuit...
...rush was not to last. Botterill and Ruggiero returned for the 2002-2003 campaign with fellow Olympian Julie Chu in tow, gobbling up the prime scoring opportunities Corriero had so deftly exploited the season before...