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...defeat American Mardy Fish for the singles gold in an epic four-hour, five-set match. "To be here is enough," an emotional Mass? said afterwards. "To win gold ... to win two golds ..." Chilean President Ricardo Lagos was not lost for words. "All of Chile is celebrating this triumph," he said. "When we want something, we're capable of getting...
...muted. For the first few days, the papers focused more on early disappointments in men's soccer and women's softball, sports in which Japan had hoped to win medals. True, the major dailies did print a special edition when the men's gymnastics team won gold, but the triumph was treated not so much as a watershed victory as a rightful return to the top tier. After all, before tumbling from grace in the 1980s, Japan won the men's team-gymnastics gold at five consecutive Olympics, the last at the 1976 Montr?al Games. In swimming, for that matter...
...them seriously." Regardless, Piersol's griping was somewhat undercut later in the week when the Texan was briefly disqualified for a questionable turn in the 200-m backstroke, before his gold was reinstated 20 minutes later. But Kitajima's ultimate revenge came a couple days after his 100-m triumph, when he cruised to victory in the 200-m competition, with an Olympic record time of 2:09.44. "That talk of the kick just motivated me more," he said. "They can stop talking now." Instead, all of Japan can start celebrating...
...less anatomically correct centaur. But most of the four-hour ceremony was pitched perfectly between reverence and glee, as some 10,000 athletes from 202 countries were introduced to 72,000 spectators and a couple of billion other people. It was just the kind of perfectly secured, glitch-free triumph that the Greeks needed to boost their confidence for the 16 days ahead...
...Denver who specializes in valuing sponsorship deals. To receive one of the rare seven-figure offers in Olympicsville, an athlete must have what Bonham calls a "magical combination" of superior performance in a high-profile sport, good looks or telegenic charm and a compelling story, typically of the triumph-over-adversity variety...