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The women's soccer team, which had won the Olympics in 1996 against the same China squad that it beat for the 1999 World Cup at the Rose Bowl, loses a thrilling 2-1 overtime match to its rivals from Norway, the last team to beat the USA in major...
Steve Redgrave was spitting nails. A gold-medal winner in four successive Olympics, he came to Sydney as a member of the British coxless four crew that had been seeded fourth--this despite being world champions for three years and undefeated for two. But a single loss this year seemed...
Redgrave, 38, is the only man to have won gold medals in an endurance sport at five successive Olympics. His roll of honor started in Los Angeles in 1984. In between he has posted nine world championships. "You have to be single-minded about what you're trying to achieve...
IVAN THE TERRIBLE The Olympics have not been kind to men named Ivan. The Olympics, not to mention their parents, have been downright cruel to men doubly named Ivan. A primer on three who have appeared so far.
With just over 24 hours remaining until the most overhyped television event since, well, the Olympics, the candidates are probably feeling the strain. Maybe they just want to get it over with. Perhaps they'll go see a movie Monday night to take their minds off the whole thing. Conceivably...