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...vault, Li Xiaopeng scored a mindboggling 16.775, the highest score of the competition. Indeed, the Chinese ended up earning the highest scores on all apparatuses except floor. The Japanese tried to keep pace but couldn't match their hosts' technical difficulty and skillful execution. Meanwhile, the Americans - who weren't favored for a medal after the withdrawal of twins Morgan and Paul Hamm, two of the team's top gymnasts - found themselves, for a moment, in contention for the silver. But a 12.775 fumble on the pommel horse by Kai Wen Tan cost the U.S. team a possible second-place...
...safety. Yet the industry group calls the CSPI report a "misleading caricature" and insists that it does not present an accurate picture of the restaurant industry as a whole. "We wouldn't be spending millions of dollars to advance food safety training and certification programs for workers if we weren't serious about food safety," says Donna Garren, who oversees health and safety issues for the restaurant association...
...four of the girls' scores had to count, and thus there was no room for error. "It was a big shock to us," says Shawn Johnson, who nevertheless laid down four solid routines and now leads the point count for the all-around title. "It's something we weren't expecting. It threw us for a loop. It's more stressful knowing we only had four [gymnasts] and that it is four up and four [scores] count. But we put it into our minds that we couldn't let anything...
...course, Chinese fans weren't alone in the crowd. The game was the hottest ticket in town; fans from the Philippines, India, Senegal and the Solomon Islands checked in. And there was plenty of red, white and blue sprinkled throughout the arena. As the Chinese team ran onto the court, Brendan Kelly, a 13-year-old from Los Angeles, waved a Chinese flag, yet wore a Team USA shirt. Who was he rooting for? "China," he says. Why? "Because I'm pissed off at the government," he says. "They've lied to us in the past, and spent...
...Others see broader forces at work, forces that stem from Spain's relatively late transition to democracy. "Until recently, sports weren't important in Spain," explains sociologist David Moscoso, of the Institute for Advanced Social Studies. "They really only existed in private schools - they were for the elite." With democracy, says Moscoso, "sports moved into the public schools, and became something for everyone. Now, it's impossible to consider Spanish society without sports." The transformation has been dramatic. Spain now boasts 250,000 public sporting facilities, its best-selling newspaper, Marca, is a sports paper and 70% of its Olympic...