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...ironically, even though these are definitely role models for your bigger-boned girls everywhere, weight is an issue among them. The winner of the 75-kg class, Colombia's Isabel Maria Urrutia, lifted the same amount as the silver and bronze medalists, but she was awarded the gold because she weighed less. She had lifted in a heavier class until recently when she went to Bulgaria to train. (Bulgaria must have lousy food; a lot of lifters go there to lose weight.) Urrutia won Colombia's first-ever Olympic gold medal in anything, which means she lost all that weight...
...make a second attempt within the allotted time. In the 75-kg class all three medalists lifted the same weight - 245 kg - but under Olympic rules the lighter athlete wins, so the 73.28 kg Urrutia took gold, while Ruth Ogbeifo of Nigeria, weighing in at 74.22 kg, snatched silver from the 74.52 kg Kuo Yi-Hang of Taiwan. The idea of women weight lifting may still suprise some people, but as Jimenez Mendivil said after her win, "This is a sport for women. All sports are for women...
...gymnastics team had been anticipating for 40 years. "We knew we were the strongest team," he said. "We just had to prove it in the Olympic field." As the current world champs, the Chinese knew they had the talent to prevail over the Ukrainians and Russians, who captured silver and bronze respectively. But a similarly strong position at Barcelona and Atlanta had only resulted in silver...
...night's big upset was the absence of Tournant from that podium. Tournant had broken Kelly's world record in June with a time of 1:00.148, but on Sept. 16 was almost 3 seconds slower. The silver went to German Stefan Nimke and the gold to Britain's Jason Queally, who set an Olympic record (1:01.609). Queally admitted he had thought himself an outside chance for third: "If I can win a gold medal, I think there's hope for many, many others...
There was no such upset in the women's 500-meter time trial. Ballanger, the event's five-time world champion, held Ferris to silver in the sprint at Atlanta and repeated the feat in the 500 meters at Sydney. Ferris was elated with her 34.696 seconds, but then had to watch as the French superstar, her face contorted with exertion, snatched the lead - and gold - by just over half a second...