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...impresses the world's top swimmers, but what impresses the world's top swimmer the most? All Phelps could talk about after his historic achievement was the fact that two of his races were broadcast live, at a baseball stadium and in a football arena, back home. "I want to raise the bar for the sport of swimming as high as it can get in the U.S.," he said. "We've come a long way; I heard that in Ravens stadium [in Baltimore, Phelps' hometown], they were watching the 400 medley relay live with 70,000 people. I heard that...
...where badminton is followed with the kind of passion Americans reserve for basketball or baseball. Sporting a coxcomb of spiky hair and stylish sideburns, Lin goes by the nickname Super Dan - pronounced "dahn," not like the shortened version of Daniel. After striking gold, the 24-year-old circled the stadium with a Chinese flag fluttering from his shoulders, like Superman with his cape...
...Indeed, for all of Johnson's remarkable consistency and skill, gymnastics experts - and perhaps judges too - tend to favor the more artistic athletes among their ranks than the athletic ones. The legendary Comaneci, watching from the stands at the National Indoor Stadium, said "In order to get very high start values, they don't do any artistic moves, especially on the floor exercise. It's almost like you should do only six tumbling passes and finish." Liukin, however, is a gymnast with a balletic aesthetic, and one who can bring back the 'artistic' to artistic gymnastics, its official Olympic name...
...artists from 22 countries filled Pago Pago's Veterans Memorial Stadium for the July 21 opening, cultural diversity was everywhere on show - from the striking syncopation of Tahitian hula to folksy bamboo-flute-playing Solomon Islanders to the fierce bow-and-arrow dancers of Torres Strait. The stadium bristled with plumage, war paint and woven lava-lavas as the various island delegations (Papua New Guinea sent 170 people) vied for the audience's affections. "There was a highly competitive air," observes Wesley Enoch, artistic director of Australia's delegation, "especially around the dancing. They want to impress...
...Olympics in Hong Kong have not gone off without incident. At the inaugural event on Aug. 9, Christina Chan, a young woman sitting in the front row of the stadium, was smothered by security staff after trying to unveil a banned Tibetan flag she and a friend had snuck past the guards. They hauled her out of the arena as some members of the crowd jeered and chanted for her to leave - her dissident act cut short before it even started. Another man wearing an anti-Olympics t-shirt was barred from even entering the venue, while a human rights...