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...shot-putter but zoomed out on the second. Another feature, StroMotion, can freeze a long jumper's position at various points in flight; the jumper resembles cartoon cels whooshing across the screen. The program also makes quick calculations. To illustrate, Leigh pauses a video of speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno, a gold medalist, and another skater approaching a left turn. In speed skating, the lower the knee's angle, the faster you explode around a bend. Leigh pointed and clicked on two knees. It's easy to decode an advantage: Ohno's angle was 52; his competitor...
...modern U.S.-Korea relations stems from a little-known pastime called short-track speed skating. Earlier this year at Salt Lake City, the nation's top hope Kim Dong Sung was disqualified for blocking a U.S. skater. In a move that most Koreans consider fixed, the American, Apolo Anton Ohno, took the gold instead. He's since been voted the most unwelcome foreigner in a Korean poll. When Korean midfielder Ahn Jung Hwan headed the ball home in the 77th minute of the U.S.-Korea match to tie the score 1-1 and keep the country's hopes of advancement...
What, you may ask, is Olympic speed skater APOLO OHNO doing hanging out with THE CLINTONS? And why is he wearing his gold medals at the beach? Reasonable questions, and ones for which there are in fact answers. For its July issue, W magazine brought Ohno to the Dominican Republic where, serendipitously, the Clintons and Chelsea's boyfriend IAN KLAUS happened to be on vacation. When W asked them to pose together, the Clintons eagerly agreed. "They were in awe of Apolo, treating him like a celebrity," says W fashion director Joe Zee. In return, Ohno apparently made no snide...
...convince him they're Jean Chr?tien. It's plausible the Canadian PM has nothing to do but crank call NE WIN Burmese ex-dictator's relatives charged with treason, and he's under Suu Kyi-style house arrest. The sound you hear is poetic justice APOLO ANTON OHNO U.S. skater voted "least welcome" by South Korean students. South Koreans obviously haven't been exposed to much Carrot...
...came here, and I did an excellent job,” Ohno said. “So many people supported me. All my friends and family in the stands, and that’s just and unbelievable feeling. My first Games and I got two medals…there’s nothing better than that...