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...Center - which was sold out every evening, unlike so many other venues - saw a week of thrilling races with an array of breakout stars like Japan's Kosuke Kitajima, who swept the men's breaststroke races, and France's Laure Manaudou, just 17, who picked up freestyle gold and silver, backstroke bronze and a new nickname: L'Or (the Golden) Manaudou. No starburst was more sudden and surprising than that of Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, 22. First, the cherubic swimmer won silver in the 100-m backstroke and bronze in the 200-m individual medley - her troubled country's first...
...field of dreams; a shot-put Nirvana." That's the description of this year's shot-put competition, held in the ancient home of the Games in the stadium at Olympia by U.S. silver medallist Adam Nelson on Wednesday. The fact that he'd just suffered a heartbreaking loss of the gold medal to Ukrainian Yuriy Bilonog in the finals seconds did nothing to dim his enthusiasm for an event whose venue captured the magic of the Athens Olympiad. And it was shared by competitors, coaches and spectators...
Will the U.S. fall in love with this team? The story lines say we should, but Canadian, Japanese and Russian women are more experienced. If the U.S. soccer team had won the silver in Atlanta, would as many girls be playing today? So for these women, all that's at stake is the future of their sport. "They definitely love you if you win," says Miranda. "That's all part of the game." Miranda has won over one tough convert already. Her once reluctant dad will be cheering in Athens, watching his daughter pin down a dream...
With Toyota retiring the Celica and the MR2 Spyder, the company is banking on the tC to rev sales with hot-rod-minded kids. Scion offers a variety of accessories to customize the car with, such as an interior-light kit and satin silver shift knob. Add flame surfacing, and even a hipster might take notice...
...players, the iPod is the most stylish you can buy today, but chic competitors are just around the corner. The Rio Carbon, available in late August for $249, looks like a silver cigarette lighter with curved edges and has 5 GB of memory--1 GB more than the iPod mini for the same price. And Sony's Network Walkman, a 20-GB device with a squared-off design, goes on sale this month for $399. That's $100 more than a new 20-GB iPod, but the Sony is lighter and smaller. Sony claims that the battery lasts...