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The pair lost in the first race to future-finalists P.M. Haining and N.J. Strange of the Auriol Kensington Rowing Club and Leander Club. Haining and Strange were defeated in the final by James Cracknell and Matthew Pinsent of the Leander Club. Cracknell and Pinsent both earned gold medals in...
What will the first Chinese Olympics be like? How did China nail down their bid? TIME international correspondent Barry Hillenbrand has covered four Olympics for TIME (most recently the 2000 summer games in Sydney). He spoke with TIME.com Friday morning after the announcement.
These games will be highly stylized. You?re going to get packed houses, but packed with subdued crowds, just as they were in Nagano and Seoul. Asian crowds are just different?there?s not going to be the spontaneity that makes the Olympics special. And that?s a real problem...
UKRAINE A Papal Call for Reconciliation Despite pleas from Russian Orthodox Patriarch Aleksy II to cancel, Pope John Paul II went ahead with a five-day visit to Ukraine. There he ignored Orthodox priests waving banners that read "Orthodoxy or death" and continued his mission to reconcile the Orthodox and...
RADAR FLASHLIGHTS Gene Greneker, a radar expert at Georgia Tech, was fiddling with a radar gun he had developed for monitoring marksmen and archers during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics when he noticed something odd: whenever someone walked on the other side of his laboratory wall, a deflection appeared on the...