Word: sporting
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Coming into the Games, the talk around the pool was hardly about drugs in sport. Instead, the meet was touted as a showdown between the U.S. and Australia for the title of world's top swimming nation, with both countries initially trying to claim the status of underdog. By Saturday night, the U.S. had easily retained its champion nation's title, winning 33 medals, 14 of them gold - an improvement on both counts over the 1996 Atlanta Games. "When you're faced with a worthy opponent, it forces you to work for it," said American sprinter Gary Hall...
...year-old, who took up the sport because "it looked like fun to me," had defeated the most competitive field to have sought Olympic gold since the women's event was introduced at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Takahashi's main competition was to have come from two Kenyans, Tegla Loroupe and Joyce Chepchumba. As it turned out, it was Romania's Lidia Simon, who had taken bronze in last year's World Championships, who stayed with Takahashi when she broke from the field shortly before the 35-kilometer mark, and held on for the silver medal. Chepchumba, who spent...
...Today the tiny runner is the biggest thing in Japanese sport...
...makes a man ask himself whether it would be worthwhile to move...to the eastern coast of Australia in order that he might look at it as long as he can look at anything." Got that right, Tony. And on this splendid natural stage the Olympic Games' newest sport, triathlon, debuted on Saturday morning, a splashy beginning to a day of competition that had Australia ecstatic by nightfall. In the evening, swimmer Ian Thorpe, a mere legend at 17 going into the Games, officially became immortal. His performance in anchoring Australia's 4 x 100 freestyle relay team...
...favorite in the 400-m run, crossed a pond of water to light the Olympic flame, she symbolically bridged a racial divide that has tainted and tormented Australia. And during the parade of athletes, the teams of South and North Korea entered as one, two bitter enemies reuniting for sport. Stop the presses: Peace breaks out at the Olympics...