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...concluded that doing things the Canadian way was just not good enough. She revamped her training program, settled in Denmark and hired former world canoe champion Christian Frederiksen as her coach. (He also was for a time her lover.) Brunet captured silver at Atlanta in 1996, losing by 0.2 sec. She thought silver was O.K. until the replay showed how close she was to gold. "That made it worse," she says, "Even now it bothers...
...foremost, says Mitch Hull, national teams director for U.S. wrestling, "he's maybe inhumanly strong." American wrestler Matt Ghaffari, 38, who has spent his career trying to defeat Karelin, can unhappily vouch for that. In Atlanta the 6-ft. 4-in., 286-lb. Ghaffari wept in frustration on the silver-medal stand after he extended Karelin into overtime, but still lost. "I wrestled my heart and soul out," he says. His performance was so moving that he is now sought as a motivational speaker. He can certainly speak to never giving up: he is 0 for 22 against the Russian...
Japan's baseball team will need three days, or more, of Matsuzaka's magic on the mound if it is to have any chance of winning an Olympic medal in Sydney. Silver medalist to Cuba's gold in Atlanta in 1996, the Japanese team will include Matsuzaka and seven other big leaguers in these first Olympics where baseball professionals are allowed. At 19, the fastballer is now the top draw of the Seibu Lions in Japan's Pacific League. When he pitches, the 35,000-seat stadium in suburban Tokorozawa tends to fill up. Other nights, the stands are often...
...with Hicklebee's, a local children's bookstore, to hold readings by authors from Lynne Reid Banks (Indian in the Cupboard) to J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter). Graystone students display school projects in Hicklebee's windows, which draw their families to the bookstore. In Toms River, N.J., the staff of Silver Bay Elementary School gets behind the counter of the Yellow Brick Road ice-cream store one evening every spring and fall to serve up an ice-cream social for the students and their parents. The semiannual event raises money for the school, boosts morale and polishes the ice-cream parlor...
...Sydney, Pedro and his teammates (including potential medalists Jason Morris, a 1992 silver winner at 81 kg [178 lbs.], Brian Olson at 90 kg [198 lbs.] and Hillary Wolf in the women's 52 kg [115 lbs.]) will be dealing with two distinct judo styles. The traditional Asian approach emphasizes speed and balance in order to knock the other judoka over. "With the Japanese and the Koreans there'll be a lot of space. It's a free-flowing, let's-see-who-can-throw-the-other-guy type of thing," says Pedro...