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...usually dominates. Last Tuesday, China's women gymnasts?a misnomer, really, given that most of the athletes are no older than 18 and look half their age?botched their performances in the team final, finishing a miserable seventh out of eight. "The team is very young," explained coach Lu Shanzhen. "We did very badly today, but I hope to build a dream team by 2008." A day earlier, in the choke performance of the week, China's male gymnastics team tumbled from gold-medal shoo-in to fifth-place finisher. The disastrous showing owed largely to the mishaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning the World Upside Down | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

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