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...gymnast and his family, the depths come when you work your whole life for a single moment only to clang off the runway and into the scorer's table like a tipsy frat boy. During the all-around final on the most crushing apparatus in gymnastics, the vault, Hamm's weary legs couldn't support his landing, and he stumbled off the mat. A lousy 9.137 score dropped him to 12th place in the competition, with only two events to go. "I thought maaaybe I could win a bronze," says Hamm...
...women's long jump, while Germany rejoiced with canoeist Birgit Fischer, 42, who earned a gold and a silver, becoming the first woman ever to win medals over a 24-year span. And a splendid moment of pan-European dominance came on Day 11, in the women's pole vault. The contest came down to five women: two Russians, two Poles and an Icelander. At one point, world-record holder Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia was one miss away from being bounced out of the competition - and then she cleared 4.80 m, claiming the gold. Finally...
...sprint golds, again cementing the Caribbean's niche in sprinting. And Greece's Fani Halkia thrilled the host country by winning the 400-m hurdles. But the Americans swept both the men's 400- and 200-meters, finished one-two in the long jump and the pole-vault, and won gold in two relay races (the men's and women's 4X400...
...dream about it your whole life, then lose. That's what happened to Patterson's opponent, Russian Svetlana Khorkina. She has ruled women's gymnastics for the better part of a decade, but has never won the Olympic all-around gold. (Her 2000 campaign ran aground when the vault was accidentally set at the wrong height.) Now 25, she knew this was her last shot. The two women's styles could not have been more different - Khorkina, so ethereal she at times looked too frail for the demands of gymnastics; Patterson, throwing herself at the apparatuses as if they were...
...loaded the team with bars-and-beams girls to amass as many points as possible in its two weakest events. But this year the U.S. is exceptionally strong in those events. "So [at the camp], my mind shifted to using two gymnasts who are strong on vault and floor exercises," says Martha. And that led her to Mohini Bhardwaj, 25, and Annia Hatch, 26. They are surprising picks since both have similar skill sets. "To be honest, I didn't expect them to take both of us," says Bhardwaj. "But I'm so glad they [did], since they really...