Word: relay
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...Games--but he did achieve an Olympian feat nonetheless, matching the most medals, eight, earned at an Olympics. Pulled along in his powerful wake, the U.S. team achieved its own victory, particularly on the men's side, by ending the competition with a world-record win in the medley relay and taking home three more golds than it did in 2000. It was a spectacular week of racing, in which tight match-ups crowned first-time Olympic champions like Japan's Kosuke Kitajima and France's Laure Manaudou, and the fast fields proved too much for golden oldies like Russia...
...star Pau Gasol suggested, that may have been because the team was just plain bad. In truth, the Games weren't anti-American; they were anti-Goliath. Just ask the British sprinters who beat the supposedly unbeatable U.S. by a hair in the men's 4 x 100-m relay. Was victory sweeter because it came at the expense of the Cousins? You bet it was. And that win changed everything for the British men; without it, they would have left the Athens track without a single medal. The medals table, especially the gold column, reflected global political and economic...
...Caribbean's niche in sprinting. And Greece's Fani Halkia thrilled the host country by winning the 400-m hurdles. But the Americans swept both the men's 400- and 200-meters, finished one-two in the long jump and the pole-vault, and won gold in two relay races (the men's and women's 4X400...
...shouldn't matter." Unless a positive drug test arises, the track team not only has its speed, but also its credibility. Still, even the athletes understand the public trust is tenuous. "The faster I run," says Lauryn Williams, 20, who won two medals, a 100-m silver and 4X100 relay gold, at these Olympics, "the less people will believe I am clean." As the first entrant in the post-BALCO era, U.S. track and field shot off the starting blocks in Athens. Let's hope this isn't a false start...
...properly again," said Thomas after winning the 100-m butterfly. "Let alone swim - or swim well." After three Olympics, Thomas is turning her thoughts to retirement. "You can't go on forever," she said after swimming a spectacular butterfly leg as part of the winning 100-m medley relay team. As for Henry, known for her slow starts and, now, for breaking world records, she's just opened her fame account. She's already being mentioned in the same breath as legends Dawn Fraser and Shane Gould. A marketer's dream, Henry appears set to become Australia's new, ever...