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...course, she did, eventually, and that embarrassed her more. It was difficult to watch, and it should be pointed out quickly that it wasn't just Khorkina in tatters and tears, it was the entire Russian team. Everything was upside down in the land Down Under: Americans were 0-3 in softball, and Russians were falling off gym equipment. Leonid Arkaev, the Russian head coach and maker of champions since 1968, was flabbergasted. "I don't know how to prepare for failure, it's never happened to me," he said before the competition started. Indeed, Russian gymnastic teams hadn...
...Russian men's team, either as the Russian Federation or the Soviet Union, had not lost an Olympic title since 1976 until it got bronzed last week by the Chinese and the Ukrainians. Arkaev said the team was not in the best of health, but it might be assumed that when the Russians found themselves in fourth place and nearly two full points behind the Chinese after the fourth rotation, it would make anyone sick. The women got silver, a performance only slightly less humbling. When team leader Khorkina fell off the uneven bars for the first time...
...Russians took it hard. This, succinctly, from the tight-lipped Arkaev: "We were expecting gold." But now he didn't have it - in the team competition, at least - and so he reset his sights on the individual all-around finals. Alexei Nemov, 24, the anchor of the Russian team, was the most decorated gymnast in Atlanta when he took home six medals. But he did not get the title of best male gymnast that year - it went China's Li Xiaoshuang. Like Khorkina, the glamorous Nemov was here for his final Olympics, but he almost didn't make...
...Moscow. She is five years older than he, and when they fell in love she left her husband, took her eight-year-old son and moved in with her mother, who lives near the training camp. "It was Galya who awoke a new interest in gymnastics for him," says Russian journalist Oxsana Tonkatsheeva, who is writing a book on the Russian team. "She made him want to train again...
...ironic that Russia had to look to the Western powers for help when the Kursk's weapons were meant to destroy Western targets? And the way Putin reacted put a real black mark on his name. Once seen as a man of action, he remained aloof from the Russian people during this crisis and stayed on holiday. SARANG KALE Pune, India...