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I was the captain of the U.S. marathon team in the 1936 Olympics and a special friend of Jesse Owens'. On the boat going to Germany, Jesse said to me, "I want to go up to the deck and exercise, but I don't have any shoes." So I said...
None of this comes as much of a surprise to Commissioner Stern, who has been consciously building the NBA into a global brand since before the Dream Team made its debut at the Barcelona Olympics a decade ago. "These kids have grown up watching Michael Jordan," Stern says of the...
Inventing Japan ends abruptly in 1964, with a peaceful, prosperous Japan welcoming the world to the first Olympics in Asia. Buruma's point, made in a wistful epilogue, is that the country has been run the same way by the same people since the 1950s, when conservatives grabbed power with...
Jantzen will continue to train for the 2004 Olympics and try to make the team, but he is more optimistic about his chances in 2008.
Although Jantzen had considered taking next year off to train for the Olympics, he indicated that he will likely still be around to lead the team next year.