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This year's favorite in the unofficial popularity contest is Isaac Menyoli. The 29-year-old cross-country skier from Buea in snowless Cameroon - his country's first-ever Winter Olympian - wants the ballyhoo that comes with being bad. But unlike the crowd-pleasing losers of Games past, he doesn't want all the attention. He actually has something other than himself to promote: AIDS education...
...Cameroonian proverb says that when a man asks questions, he cannot avoid the answers. When Menyoli asked himself what would happen if he became an Olympian, he knew the answer. "I'm such an amateur skier," he says. "It's tough." But the sport isn't really the point. Menyoli's Olympic-sized ambition is. "I want to ski for a reason," he says. "I want to tell people that they really have to watch out, that AIDS is serious." He'll deserve a medal if he gets that message across...
...harrowing training regimens that warp young athletes' sexual development and the widespread use of drugs and supplements meant to induce short bursts of speed and power, a lot of today's would-be medallists might be regarded, in Mormon terms, as defiled and deficient. The bulked-up, souped-up Olympian may break world records, but is he or she fit to enter Mormon heaven, or even serve as a model for classical sculpture? In many cases, no. He's built like a Greek god, goes the old saying, reminding us that the spirit and the physique have long been seen...
Harvard can relax a bit in its upcoming exhibition game, at home on Jan. 27 against the Conneticut Polar Bears, the former team of U.S. Olympian Angela Ruggiero...
...back, floating for half an hour in frigid ocean waters and rolling commando-style in mud. But when coaches blindfolded her in the dead of night, took her to a crematorium and told her to fetch bones from the ovens, she almost lost it. Says the tanned Olympian, hard-muscled from using bows with a bone-snapping 17 kg of draw weight: "I cried...