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In the traditional archery competitions held in the snow-swept Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, women play a crucial role. But it's not as athletes aiming bamboo bows strung with lengths of stinging-nettle vine. Instead, Bhutanese women cluster near the male archers and take sole responsibility for keeping them...
Less than a year later, Amaral attended the Sydney Olympics, as an independent athlete competing under the Olympic flag. This time around, as she represents her nation for the first time, Amaral is hoping for a better finish than her 43rd place in Sydney. But the 32-year-old runner...
That doesn?t mean the Games will be a bust. The facilities themselves are state of the art, these Games have more countries and more athletes than any other, and Athens is primed for some excellent matchups including, of course, the U.S. versus the Aussies in the pool. The Greeks...
The riders argued their case and won. For the rest of the country, the patriotic course is presumably to forget they were ever in strife and cheer for them in Athens. But there's an alternative, which is to stop stifling those pangs of disillusionment. Justice may have been done...
The wrecking ball of drug abuse has pounded the noble message of the Olympic Creed - "the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well" - to the brink of collapse. It was tempting to believe that Ben Johnson and Linford Christie were villains of a darker past...