CLOSE CALL STUNNER FOR OUTHUSTLED U.S. TEAM
The NBA stars on the U.S. basketball team swore they would smell blood once they reached the medal round of the 2000 Summer Olympics. But in the two games leading...
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PING-PONG DIPLOMACY OF SORTS WAS PRACTICED AT THE WOMEN’S TABLE TENNIS TOURNAMENT, WHERE FANS FROM SYDNEY’S CHINATOWN WEREN’T SURE WHICH COUNTRY CHINESE OPPONENTS REPRESENTED.
Ping-Pong diplomacy or not, the Olympic women's table tennis tournament turned into an all-Chinese affair fought under Chinese banners and a forest of red flags courtesy of the Peoples Republic,...
JONES’ 200 VICTORY MAKES HER 2-FOR-2
She won the race easily, her margin the biggest in the event at an Olympics since 1960, bigger even than the gap Florence Griffifth Joyner opened while setting the world...
YOUNGER BROTHER GETS PLENTY OF HELP
Sitting in the stands and on his hands, Jean Lopez wanted desperately to get to his brother Steven and help him set a trap during Thursday's 68-kg gold-medal match. But...
HUFFINS SAVES DECATHLON BRONZE WITH HIS BEST 1,500
Once across the finish line, Chris Huffins sank to his knees and drummed the track with both fists, a man happy to have won an Olympic decathlon medal on a...
HYSONG GETS U.S. (UP AND) OVER HUMP
It's the classic story of the young boy dreaming of winning Olympic gold by using broomsticks to pole vault in his back yard. The only thing missing from the picture...
`COOL’ RIVALRY HEATS UP
The international stage is set in women's basketball: host Australia against the defending gold-medal champion United States. "Australia has created this rivalry with us," Lisa Leslie said after leading the...
THE FIRST PARALYMPIC ATHLETE TO COMPETE AGAINST SIGHTED COMPETITORS IN THE 2000 GAMES SQUEEZES THROUGH IN THE 1,500 SEMIS.
The clock became the thing Marla Runyan needed to watch after her race was over Thursday night. The top five in each of two semifinals of the women's 1,500 meters...
JONES FOULS UP IN DRIVE FOR 5
Pride goes before the foul. Or fouls. Marion Jones had four fouls in six long-jump attempts Friday, ending her hopes for five Olympic gold medals and mocking her stubborn refusal...
KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON
It wasn't supposed to end like this, wasn't in the script at all. The U.S. women's soccer team wasn't supposed to be walking around dazed at midfield, the players putting...