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Yet as China hungers for a new type of hero to replace the socialist icons of a bygone era, the nation's athletes are turning their sporting prowess into a marketable asset. Tian and Guo are among the first to make this headlong leap. Tian, the reigning Olympic champion in...
As Robert Korzeniowski cruises around the track at his training base in the northern French town of Tourcoing, his body - tan, lithe, tautly muscled - obviously belongs to a world-class athlete. But his gait belongs to Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks. His legs do a speedy, almost balletic...
While Jesus may be returning on NBC, here's who will not: "Whoopi," "Happy Family," "Ed" and sundry other shows you forgot the network had aired in the first place. Which brings us the one true innovation from this year's upfronts: following Fox, which is debuting many of its...
Dartfish rose to Olympic glory quicker than Marion Jones. In 1997 Serge Ayer, a graduate student at the Swiss Polytechnic Institute, and his professor Martin Vetterli developed the SimulCam blueprint. Ayer and his brother Jean-Marie, then a Swisscom executive and now CEO of Dartfish Europe, spent Sunday dinners discussing...
Although television has given Dartfish invaluable exposure, it doesn't pay the bulk of the bills. Of the company's $5 million in 2003 sales, only 15%, or $750,000, came from television; athletic-training software accounted for the rest. The company says the Athens Olympics will generate only 8...