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Everybody appreciates good losers. During the Olympics, we adore spectacular ones. Remember British ski jumper Eddie the Eagle or the 1988 Jamaican bobsledders? Such efforts are so amazingly futile that the athletes win fans' hearts, if no medals, and garner the kind of media adoration that even winners don't...
Then last spring, he had an idea: he would ski in the Olympics. He had first seen cross-country on television, during Calgary in 1988, and tried the sport after moving to Wisconsin. (He also tried downhill but says, "Why would you want to go through that? I could slam...
Though the racers accept the inherent dangers of their sport, some think that safety could be improved. "If the safety was in place correctly, that kind of stuff wouldn't happen," says America's Picabo Street, who won silver in the downhill at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer and gold...
Some of the most sought-after tickets at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney were for the women's beach volleyball. Nice as it would be to believe that all those - predominantly male - spectators were interested in was the skill and athleticism of the players, there was a slight suspicion that...
When Stephen Goldsmith was 17, he won a high school oratory contest with a speech on "Why I want to be a black transsexual." It was an act of defiance. Goldsmith, who is Jewish, remembers being roughed up almost every week on the way home from school in Salt Lake...