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...medals at Athens, but simply stepping into the starting blocks is a triumph for a nation scarred by two and a half decades of war, and where many religious conservatives still object to women stepping outside of the home. "It is not Robina's results that matter," says Stig Traavik, a former Olympian from Norway who is taking a year off from his diplomatic career to advise Afghanistan's National Olympic Committee (N.O.C.). "It is that she will inspire other women, so that in the future we will have an even stronger team." It will take more than inspiration...
...words with assistant coach Carlos Lorenzana. Even the icy Scandinavians are surrendering to their primal urges. Swedes Freddie Ljungberg and Olof Mellberg got into a scuffle in front of live TV cameras during a training session. The Danes mounted their own smackdown, a three-way rumpus involving Jesper Gronkjaer, Stig Tofting and Thomas Graveson. Team official Jim Stjerne-Hansen told reporters afterwards: 'These players need a kindergarten teacher to sort them out.' And longer nap times. ?By Aparisim Ghosh...
...Stig Skovlind and Malene Breining Nielsen met 21 years ago, when he was 17 and she was 19. The Danish couple went to the same school, where Stig admits he developed a crush on Malene. "When I finally caught her, we fell deeply in love. We had so much in common - so much to talk about," he says. And in 1982, 18 months after they started dating, the two moved in together. Over the years they pursued their careers - Stig is a musician and sound technician; Malene a preschool teacher - lived in a series of rented homes in Elsinore...
...Debuting at the Metropolitan Opera Saturday as Wagner's "Siegfried," Danish tenor Stig Andersen received a standing ovation for his unbelievable performance during the show, which...