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...them was one of the international community's, and Hong Kong's, finest hours. Millions of dollars, raised for the protesters before the massacre, were channeled into a rescue effort that the press dubbed Yellowbird and that engineered more than 300 escapes. While well-known figures like Olympic swimmer Yang Yang were whisked away to asylum, less famous fugitives like Zhang were stuck in Hong Kong...
There are two juniors who competed in the Olympic Trials for the U.S., Rob Anagnoson in the butterfly and Brian Younger in freestyle (Younger placed fourth overall). Another junior, Eric Matuszak, was the overall top swimmer at Easterns...
Alexander Popov, 25, Russia Returning from a party with friends, the Olympian swimmer got into a late-night street fight in Moscow with watermelon vendors in August, during which he received a serious stab wound. Though thinner, he has recovered from emergency surgery and plans to resume training...
...from--or the fact that the females are mostly teenagers while the male gymnasts are in their mid-20s? Resist overcovering women's beach volleyball, which is no better than the swimsuit competition at the Miss America pageant. And don't labor to make heroes of the nonheroic. Airbrushing swimmer Gary Hall Jr., the spoiled grandson of savings and loan cheat Charles Keating Jr., by not mentioning that he was a major goof-off, blowing up mailboxes and tearing up golf courses, is formulaic hagiography. And after 11 p.m., don't make us sit through any more motivational infomercials...
...Olympics are appealing to women not because of hokey scenes of swimmer Amanda Beard cuddling a teddy bear but rather because they used to be a pure communal event--of which there are so few--with moments of real sentiment and real heroism instead of the Oprah kind. They are one of the few times when TV celebrates hardworking role models instead of the self-absorbed doofuses on most of prime time and in big-time sports--and one when parents can watch with the kids without cringing at explicit sex scenes. That's more than enough reason to tune...