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...Australian swimming idol Dawn Fraser, three-time winner of the Olympic 100-meter freestyle and a teenage champion in 1956, said the relay was the best race she had seen. Most observers were wondering whether they had seen the best swimmer of all time. Australia's head coach, Don Talbot, once described Thorpe as possibly the "swimmer of the century." On Saturday night, the chatty coach was almost lost for words. "How can you enhance the opinion I've got of him?" said Talbot. "I don't have the superlatives." But it was the question that commentators were not going...
...closest thing to a certainty in these Olympics: when Ekundayo Williams crosses the finish line in her 100-meter heat Friday, she'll be five meters behind the winner. If the winner happens to be one of the event's speed queens, Marion Jones or Inger Miller, the gap could be as much as 10 meters. Williams' personal best time is 11.91 seconds, slower than every 100-meter champion in Olympic history save Betty Robinson, who won gold in Amsterdam in 1928 in just her fourth track meet...
...deal materialized. And so Pop was laid to rest, its tombstone a warning to all those in Tinseltown who would jump on the Internet without first understanding it. If Spielberg and Howard own the story rights to Pop's internal wranglings, however, they might yet have a winner...
AILING. LANCE ARMSTRONG, 28, two-time Tour de France winner and cancer conqueror; with a broken vertebra in his neck; after a downhill, blind-curve collision with a car that destroyed his bike and helmet; near Nice, France. Armstrong, who was training for the Olympics, still hopes to compete in Sydney...
...ancient Panhellenic Games, the two were as tightly bound as a winner's laurel wreath. At Sydney's Powerhouse Museum, "1,000 Years of the Olympic Games: Treasures of Ancient Greece" reminds us that where bull leaping and chariot racing have fallen from favor, art has endured...