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...years ago, "talent-selection officers" spotted Xu Jiamin, the now-12-year-old daughter of Guangdong farmers, and recruited her for her long legs, short torso and large hands?ideal attributes for a weight lifter. Xu had never heard of weight lifting when the scouts approached her, and she says her parents weren't sure a career lifting barbells was what they wanted for their little girl. But the officers impressed upon them that weight lifting could be Xu's ticket out of rural poverty. Besides, with Beijing 2008 coming up, Xu might one day represent her nation on home...
...hard as China does. Wu He, vice director of Guangdong's table-tennis association, has been involved in the sport for 46 years, first as southern China's champion and then as a coach. When he started out, most kids were 12 when they were picked by talent scouts for municipal-level sports academies. "Today, children must start, at the very latest, at six years old," he says. "Otherwise it's too late." To increase the level of play, China lowered the minimum age at municipal table-tennis competitions from 10 years old to 8 a decade ago. And even...
...Though few pugilistic pundits give Somluck a realistic chance in Athens (he was almost bounced from the team recently for missing training sessions), his teammate Somjit Jongjohor could well become Thailand's third-ever gold medalist. Somjit, the 2003 world amateur flyweight champion, is a slick boxer with a talent for weaving out of trouble and counterpunching his way to victory. But even if he stumbles in Athens, Somjit has a backup career?like Somluck, he's recorded his own album...
...even went so far as to tap a former rival as a running mate. "The thing about Kerry is, he doesn't hold grudges at all," says Cahill. As his opponents in the Democratic primary dropped out one by one, the Kerry campaign unabashedly vacuumed up the top talent from their operations. Even before naming Edwards to the ticket, Kerry had scouted and hired some of his erstwhile staff members: former Edwards chief of staff Miles Lackey became Kerry's deputy campaign manager for policy and speechwriting, communications aide David Ginsburg went on to serve that function for Kerry...
...Dispatch” hadn’t yet entered the American musical lexicon. But, tucked away at Middlebury College, “three hackers who used to play sports and had guitars in their hands,” according to Corrigan, had only begun to appreciate their combined talent, then performing under the name “One Fell Swoop...