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...defeated the most competitive field to have sought Olympic gold since the women's event was introduced at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Takahashi's main competition was to have come from two Kenyans, Tegla Loroupe and Joyce Chepchumba. As it turned out, it was Romania's Lidia Simon, who had taken bronze in last year's World Championships, who stayed with Takahashi when she broke from the field shortly before the 35-kilometer mark, and held on for the silver medal. Chepchumba, who spent most of the race looking round for Loroupe, her flatmate and training partner who trailed...
...exceptionally fast race, with 14 runners finishing within two hours 30 minutes, Chepchumba and Simon both finished inside the previous Olympic best time. As she entered the stadium for one lap of the track Takahashi's race was nearly cut short by an overzealous official who stepped out with the finish ribbon, but realized her mistake and let the runner past to complete the race. Japanese journalists thronged the athlete afterward, wanting to interview their new heroine and her coach for special late editions of their newspapers...
...with a new production of Arthur Miller's All My Son and a stage of adaptation of Singin' in the Rain. Even the Old Vic Theater opened its doors to non-British writers and put up Frank McGuiness' new play, Dolly West's Kitchen, a sentimental (and surprisingly Neil Simon-esque) family-based comedy that deals with the issue of Irish neutrality in World...
...defeat in the idea of facing the new millennium with a string of 400 year old plays, it's hard to complain when there are so many worthy productions of the Bard. Leading the pack is the National Theater's new production of Hamlet, starring the incomparable Simon Russell Beale. Bringing a sensitivity and compassion to the title role beyond that found in almost all other stagings in memory, Beale has clearly solidified his position as one of the greatest actors of his generation. A little further down the Thames, Mark Rylance also spent the summer tackling the melancholy Dane...
...Condor Pasa' by Simon and Garfunkel because I would rather be a sparrow than a snail if I could...