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Music is obviously a huge creative influence on you. Has music always been a part of your life? -Karen Medley, SEATTLEActually, growing up, I didn't listen to a ton. My parents were pretty strict. I only discovered music as an inspiration later in life...
...with synchronized swimming, rhythmic gymnastics was added as an Olympic sport at the Los Angeles Games in 1984. The sartorial rules are strict: leotards must not stray into, god forbid, tutu territory. A brazen flash of a bra strap can even result in points subtracted from the gymnast's score. Curiously, in each Olympics, one of the five apparatuses isn't contested. In Athens, the clubs, which look like a pair of brightly hued bowling pins, didn't make an appearance. This year, it's the bouncy ball that's missing. Rhythmic gymnastics is certainly mesmerizing, but Cirque de Soleil...
...public interest lawyer who has been detained and held for days at a time by security forces during past sensitive periods such as Communist Party Congresses, said he had been followed the day of the opening ceremony, but not arrested. Nevertheless, Li added, the authorities have been growing increasingly strict and may well remain so after the Games are over. "There used to be some sensitive events and days when we would be watched, such as June 4th," Li said, referring to the anniversary of the bloody suppression of protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. "But now it's happening...
...Despite the chaos, his mother was strict. "We called her the Terminator back home," he says. "In our house, if you cried about something, you'd get laughed at." In a crowded house, tempers flared. Henry and his brother Angel, 22, were sparring partners. "They used to freakin' pull out chains and knives and s___," says brother Alonzo, 28, who made the trip to Beijing with Angel, their sister Gloria, 25, and an entourage of former coaches and close friends. The practice at home paid off: combined, Angel and Henry won six Arizona state wrestling titles...
Bolt's bad eating habits are somewhat surprising, given how strict his parents were. "He never got in trouble," says Herb Elliott, the Jamaican team doctor, who knew Bolt as a boy. Jennifer and Wellesley Bolt raised Usain on the north shore of Jamaica, and he turned down scholarship offers from several U.S. colleges for the comforts of home...