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As the 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...
Once every four years, the world's sporting minnows swim with the big fish at the Games. Each time, a few find their way to the front. Eighty-six of the 202 teams at the Olympics had never won a medal of any color. Israel, which had managed one silver...
Another rare sight was Jeremy Wariner, track's Eminem, running away with two golds. He's the first white sprinter to represent the U.S. in the 400 meters since 1964. Unlike Marshall, Wariner is not angry about his background. And while Larry Bird says basketball needs more white superstars to...
"We should block the streets with our cars, lock the doors and walk away," he says. "But for Olympics, everyone must sacrifice."
The second semi of the women's 200-m medley has been run, and Alice's time places her 10th. She's missed out on the final by a quarter of a second. But the next Olympics are only four years away. The papers are already suggesting Beijing won't...