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...drugs. They know they are not capable of surpassing records without resorting to such drugs. It would be much healthier to forget about world records and let athletes at each Olympic Games compete for records that would be valid only for the Games of that year. Ralferd C. Freytag Victoria, Canada It was a delight to watch all the athletes participating in the Athens Games. Hats off to the authorities for making a great event! As an Indian, I was embarrassed, however, by my country's performance at these Olympics, since we came home with only one medal. I hope...
...busy to be sick, mention the director Mira Nair. When we meet, she's launching a film studio in Bombay, preparing to shoot three movies in India, England and possibly Afghanistan, working on a Broadway musical and creating a film workshop-cum-garden with a view of Lake Victoria near Kampala, in Uganda?all in addition to being a long-distance mother and wife to her family in New York City. Meanwhile, she's been up all night in her Bombay hotel with viral flu and a temperature of 39?C. "I don't stand around chewing my nails...
...True to form, Nair's vision of her future is as exuberantly eccentric and visually eye-catching as her films. "When I am 50," she declares, "I want to be standing in a beautiful, open, rustic space with a view of Lake Victoria with a group of extraordinary filmmakers, all of whom know how to do a headstand." As always with Nair, it promises to be quite a spectacle...
...German company, the device measures the power and rhythm of each pedal push, as well as the cyclist's heart rate. He's even got gizmos working for him as he sleeps. Blake has pitched a plastic "high-altitude tent" atop his queen-size bed at his home in Victoria. A compressor pumps in air containing 15% oxygen, equal to the rarefied air 3,000 meters above sea level, compared with 21% oxygen at sea level. As Blake snoozes, his body compensates for the lower level of oxygen it is getting by producing more red blood cells. Because red blood...
...this help? Sports scientists and some coaches concede that such breakthroughs may make only a small improvement in performance?but that can be a critical increment. "It's 5%, max," says Dr. Gordon Sleivert, director of sports science and medicine at the PacificSport Canadian Sport Center in Victoria. "But 1% might make the difference between a gold medal and eighth place...