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...Japanese gymnasts vaulted into first place, with the Americans and Romanians rounding out the medal count, Teng sat slump-shouldered on the sidelines, his face set in a stunned frown. Finally, teammate Yang Wei, a veteran gymnast who captured a gold team medal and a silver in the individual all-around in Sydney, leaned over and patted Teng. "He shouldn't worry, because he will have another chance in Beijing," commented Yang. "Teng's still a young boy full of hope." Two days later, Yang himself floundered, finishing seventh in the individual all-around event, after being pegged...
...aggressive slices through the water, is hardly a subservient stereotype. In the pool's biggest spat to date, American Aaron Piersol accused the Japanese swimmer of using an illegal dolphin kick in the 100-m breaststroke, thereby relegating Piersol's friend and fellow American Brendan Hansen to a silver. Instead of quietly turning away from the controversy, Kitajima fought back, albeit in an understated way: "The questions got me slightly angry," he told reporters, noting that he had never been warned about any prohibited kicks in previous international competitions. "But I don't take them seriously." Regardless, Piersol's griping...
Unfortunately, nothing is ever quite that easy in Athens. The evening before the ceremony, Greece's two most celebrated athletes--200-m Olympic champion Konstantinos Kenteris and 100-m silver medalist Katerina Thanou--missed their mandatory drug tests and were suspended by the Hellenic Olympic Committee (H.O.C.) pending an International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) investigation. For Greeks, it was a shocking front-page horror story. I.O.C. officials say notices were posted on the athletes' doors in the Olympic Village alerting them to the 6:15 p.m. test, and that doctors waited more than an hour before declaring them no-shows...
...lose," Alassane says. But the point of this trip for Alassane - and for Olympic Solidarity (OS), the scholarship program that has given him more than $20,000 for training and travel over the past 18 months - was to get a masterclass in judo. Krnac went on to win the silver. "I've seen that there's a much higher level," Alassane says. The OS program is designed to help him, and 584 other Athens Olympians, reach that level. During the past two years, the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) has plowed $13.7 million into athlete scholarships, and another $100 million into...
...point. In Sydney 2000 and Atlanta 1996, Khorkina won gold in the uneven bars, her signature event. Her chance to make it three for three was still ahead of her. Patterson's victory capped one of America's best weeks ever in Olympic gymnastics. The U.S. won silver in the men's and women's team events - the first time both genders have medaled in the event in a nonboycotted Olympics. And Paul Hamm became the first American man to take gold in the individual all-around. The Koreans protested the scoring; although their appeal was rejected, three judges were...