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...Guerrouj, Morocco's rendition of a Giacometti stick figure, who stayed ahead of Kenya's Bernard Lagat seemingly by dint of facial contortion alone to capture a long-elusive Olympic win in the 1,500-m race. Or Birgit Fischer, Germany's 42-year-old kayaker who won her eighth gold in a 24-year Olympic career. Or Liu Xiang, the first Chinese to strike gold in a short-distance track event, when he ran an Olympic-record 12.91 seconds in the 110-m hurdles. Or, of course, the most high wattage of them all, American golden boy Michael Phelps...
...records, respectively. The Kuwaiti and Afghan sprinters crossed the line three seconds off the fastest qualifying time, yet they still made history as their countries' first female Olympians. Iraq's Alaa Jassim, whose 100-m training regimen was occasionally foiled by sniper fire and bombings, may have ended up eighth out of eight in her heat, but she left Athens feeling remarkably relaxed. "Before, if an Iraqi finished last in the Olympics, they could be thrown in jail and tortured," says Iraq's Olympic chief of mission Tiras Anwaya. "We don't have to worry about such things...
...eighth viewing, I still enjoyed it, which is saying something,” she said, after the closing credits had rolled...
...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...
LAURA WILKINSON AGE 26 HOMETOWN Spring, Texas EVENTS Diving--10-m platform THE DRAMA Craving suspense? Watch Wilkinson. She won gold in Sydney by making a memorable leap from eighth place. Made the 2004 team on a nail-biting final dive. THE COMPETITION Wilkinson is a wonder, but she'll have Lao Lishi of China and Emilie Heymans of Canada on her heels...