Word: sporting
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Flessel-Colovic's fencing successes turned her into a sports-page heroine. As a black woman from the Caribbean excelling in a sport usually associated with white European men, she joined the high-profile members of France's world and European champion soccer team as a positive icon of the country's changing, multiethnic face...
...Olympic poster girl realized that diving could actually be fun. She missed the water, the exhilaration of soaring through the air and sliding into the tank with barely a ripple. "Taking a break took the pressure off diving," she says. "It made me realize that I loved the sport and that I could do it on my own terms...
...January, less than a year after she re-emerged, her crisp dives captured a silver medal at the Diving World Cup. The gold went to 18-year-old compatriot Guo Jingjing, Fu's main rival in the individual events and partner in synchronized diving, a debut sport at Sydney. "Guo is China's young star," Fu says with a smile. "But don't count the big sister...
...want people forgetting is that I'm first and foremost a fencer," stresses Flessel-Colovic, whose wedding in 1996 to a French journalist generated wider media coverage than most of her competitions enjoy. "After all, if people know who I am at all, it's thanks to my sport. All the rest--the attention, the fame--is fleeting...
...says Craig Masback, chief executive officer of USA Track and Field, the governing body in the U.S. for a sport with a druggie reputation. He insists these Games will be, by and large, clean: "The Olympics are the most tested sports movement in the world. I believe the vast majority of athletes aren't on drugs." Counters Shorter: "Anybody can look at a dirty athlete and know he's dirty. All bulked up. His face changing..." Masback says, "You can't ban an athlete because he looks suspicious. That's why there are tests." And, he adds, "it's unfortunate...