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...Museum is an imposing white stone structure with hints of Italian gothic as well as Stalinist monumentalism, built on the dictator's orders back in the early 1950s around the small wooden house where he was born. It's treasures include one of Stalin's trademark woolen capes; a pair of leather riding boots; a pipe; one of just 12 death masks of the leader; letters he wrote in his native Georgian language; and an edition of the works of Immanuel Kant inscribed by the author. The museum also houses the 1930s-era armor-plated Pullman railway carriage that carried...
...after the Chinese men's doubles pair lost to an Indonesian squad, Lin was ready to reclaim national pride. He loped into the Beijing University of Technology gymnasium like a heavyweight prizefighter looking for trouble. Lee, who had previously expressed nervousness about competing against a national hero, stood no chance. The crowd mercilessly booed the Malaysian, while a troupe of Chinese cheerleaders dressed in skimpy ethnic-minority costumes whipped the audience into a frenzy. It was the kind of atmosphere one might imagine at the deciding game of an NBA final, but this was badminton Chinese style...
Crowd support was also crucial for the Chinese women's pair, who started their quarter-final match at 1:00AM on Aug. 16. The late match, punctuated by swirls of flying nocturnal insects, pitted Yan and Zheng against Russia's Dinara Safina and Kuznetsova in a nearly three-hour battle (6-3, 5-7, 10-8). Safina must have been exhausted: Less than four hours earlier, the Russian had dispensed with Serbia's Jelena Jankovic in an epic women's single's quarter-final...
...women's tennis schedule continues in an unrelenting fashion. Safina plays Li again in a women's singles semi-finals on Aug. 16 at 4:00PM, just 12 hours after she and her Russian partner lost to the Chinese pair. Zheng and Yan meet Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual later in the evening in a doubles semi-final match...
...plan seems to be working. In the 2004 Athens Games, a Chinese women's pair brought home a surprise gold. Two years later, at the Australian Open, Yan and Zheng claimed the country's first Grand Slam title. Then came Wimbledon, when the diminutive Zheng made it to the semi-finals as a wildcard before succumbing to the younger Williams sister. Zheng, a native of Sichuan province, which was rocked by the May earthquake, donated her Wimbledon prize money to the reconstruction effort...