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It was Athens, in fact, that was on Lezak's mind as he made the turn into the final. "I'm not going to lie, but when I flipped and saw how far ahead [Bernard] was, and he's the world record holder, the thought caught my mind for a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phelps' Bids for Gold — By a Finger | 8/11/2008 | See Source »

There's always plenty of pressure on athletes to perform to their absolute best at the Olympics, but how many can say that they have shouldered the burden of competing in front of not one, but two presidents and billions of TV viewers?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phelps' Olympic Bid Starts in Style | 8/10/2008 | See Source »

When they got to bars, the U.S. finally had the five gymnasts it needed to compete - including a not fully fit Memmel, whose five release moves make her a high scorer on this apparatus. But she lost her grip in one of those flights, and took a hit in her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: US: Rough Start to Gymnastics | 8/10/2008 | See Source »

But the Jianfu Palace affair was not the only A-list dinner in town. Almost simultaneously, exactly 30 miles north, in the shadow of the Great Wall, China's next establishment gathered to welcome their foreign friends. Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin are, as one foreign press story put it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing's Dinners and Revolutions | 8/10/2008 | See Source »

And how does the story of Old Zhao end? He finally gets help from a member of his neighborhood committee, which gives him a pill that puts him in a coma for a month - an option also taken up by most of his neighbors. When he wakes up the Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Olympic-Sized Security Blanket | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

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