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...Woods had the next best thing to a wife with him: a mom. The cameras caught Tida Woods looking down, barely able to watch her son during the unusually long apology, whether out of shame or compassion. "The ending hug with his mother may have been the most humanizing moment," says Kenneth Shropshire, a professor of sports marketing at Wharton business school. "It really did deliver that this is, apart from all the elements us gawkers are focused on, a family matter." (See a brief history of the Tiger Woods scandal...
...levels in ways that don't always come across on television. The edges are sharper and deeper, the footwork is cleaner and crisper, and the spins are tighter and, frankly, more like spins than the squats some skaters were getting away with for years. (See 25 Olympic athletes to watch...
...sport is the spontaneity that makes sports exciting. Athletes at this level live on the edge of control and chaos, and it's the collective wow of moments when they butt themselves up against that line that take our breath away and keep bringing us back to watch. "It's important for any sport to continue to raise the bar and move forward," Paul Wylie, a 1992 silver medalist, told me after the men's short programs. "I have to admit, as a performer who did two triple Axels in my program in Albertville, I am surprised that more guys...
...Tuesday. "But several times I fell. Then I broke my foot, and it became less fun and more scary. [Now] the risk of injury is definitely there. So I decided to lay off that pressure on the left foot and try to make it through these Games successfully." (Watch TIME's video "As Vonn Wins, a 'Bluebird' Day for Whistler Skiers...
...biggest events in the world," says Kalum Iverson, 33, an oil company account manager from Langley, B.C. He's also driving around dignitaries. "I didn't want to miss out." Iverson remembers waking up in the middle of the night during the 1998 Olympics to watch the hockey games being broadcast from Nagano, Japan. Since then, he has wanted to be part of the Olympics in any capacity. (See the top 10 worst figure-skating costumes...