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Kobe Bryant waved to the roaring crowd at Wukesong Arena, pounding his hand over his heart and beaming a smile as wide as all of China.
The medal on the green ribbon was Lisa Leslie's first golden Olympic souvenir. She won it in Atlanta in 1996, when she was 24 and wondering if she'd have to abandon basketball for modeling because there was no women's pro league in America where she could earn a living.
The U.S. men's and women's 1,600-meter relay teams passed the baton safely today, big news after the muffed handoffs that knocked the 400-meter relay teams out of the Olympics a day earlier.
Goalkeeper Hope Solo dug into her bag to retrieve two homemade gold medals moments after the U.S. women's soccer team defeated Brazil in extra time to win the Olympic championship, placing one around her neck and clutching the other a scant few minutes before she would get a genuine medal. Exactly why she did that remains a mystery.
Beijing
Beijing
The first American track and field athlete to win a gold medal here wanted to be the next Mary Lou Retton until her hardy English-German-Nordic genes kicked in and she hit 6 feet in junior high, on the way to her 6-4 adult height.
The Olympic sprints are officially Jamaica's world, and we're all just spectators at a rollicking party.
Late in the third quarter of yet another romp for the U.S. men's Olympic basketball team, the crowd at the Wukesong Arena was treated to a rendition of "The Twist," sung by someone who sounded a lot like Chubby Checker.
Shalane Flanagan was hesitant to believe her own eyes, confused by the chaos of the lead runners lapping slower ones as the women's 10,000-meter Olympic run came to a spectacular conclusion Friday night at the Bird's Nest.