Word: gymnastics
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...tainted predecessors. (It was their coach, Trevor Graham, who sent in a syringe of human growth hormone to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, saying he hoped to save the sport for clean athletes.) Even when Americans weren't supposed to win, they won, like Paul Hamm, the gold-medal gymnast who prospered by a judging error. Gifts from judges don't tend to win hyperpowers many friends...
Come on, people - you don't have to be an olympic gymnast to master this move. My 10-month-old daughter, Coralia, has it down cold. Step One: Stand up. Step Two: Bring your open palms together with as much force as possible. Step Three: Yell, "Bravo Hellas!" Give the Greeks an Olympic-size round of applause. Heaven knows we deserve it. Greece, my charmingly chaotic country and the butt of international ridicule for the past seven years, really delivered. We staged a successful Olympic Games - something the rest of the planet was sure we couldn't do. Practically from...
...really earn the silver? The evening's penultimate gymnast, South Korea's Yang Tae Young, could have put the gold out of reach. But while gripping the bar, Yang turned one hand the wrong waya "mixed grip"--an error that opened the door. Hamm swung through it, whirling through the routine of his life, soaring high off the bar three times before nailing the dismount. Hamm's winning margin, .012 points led South Korea to file a protest, and the International Gymnastics Federation admitted that a scoring mistake probably cost Yang the gold. But unless the Court of Arbitration...
Within 24 hours of Hamm's individual performance, his agent, Sheryl Shade, got calls from 10 companies asking about endorsement deals, including one that phoned her 20 minutes after he stepped on the podium. "That's unheard of for a male gymnast," says Shade. "I've got a lot of new best friends right now." But Hamm, who grew up on a farm in Waukesha, Wis., enjoys a low-bar profile. "He's not going to turn into a marketer," says Sandy Hamm, Paul's father. "His job is to compete, not promote." Although next time, he could...
...very good. She's good because she has a Russian coach." SVETLANA KHORKINA, Russian gymnast and defending world champion, on Carly Patterson, the American who beat her for the gold medal in the women's all-around competition...