HERE’S WHY THEY STAND SO STRAIGHTAugust 15, 2008 | Detroit Free PressDAY 8: Medicine, gold medals and how this little piggy went to market.BEIJING - So my big toe is being squeezed ...Read More
CHINA’S TINY GYMNASTS IN SERVICE TO THE GOLDAugust 14, 2008 | Detroit Free PressDAY 7: Gym wars and pigtails. BEIJING - What did you expect? Any country that would lip-sync out a 7-year-old ...Read More
THE GREATEST: 11 GOLD MEDALS! NOBODY HAS MORE THAN PHELPSAugust 13, 2008 | Detroit Free PressBEIJING - Fifty-eight minutes. What can you do with that? Almost watch a TV drama? Nearly finish a business lunch? ...Read More
TOO SOON A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN MEMORIESAugust 13, 2008 | Detroit Free PressDAY 6: Hell hath no fury like BEIJING - The subject today is women, and the girls in pink are waiting.They hover. ...Read More
SOFTBALL: TOO SOON A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN MEMORIESAugust 13, 2008 | Detroit Free PressDAY 6: Hell hath no fury like BEIJING - The subject today is women, and the girls in pink are waiting.They hover. ...Read More
I’M FEELING OLD AMID THIS YOUTH MOVEMENTAugust 12, 2008 | Detroit Free PressDAY 5: Kid divers, old folks and nose hair. BEIJING - Thanks to gymnastics, I am quite used to little girls at the ...Read More
IN OLYMPIC HOOPS, DON’T FORGET DANCERSAugust 11, 2008 | Detroit Free PressBEIJING -"How you China do basketball tonight?"This came from one of the more talented English speakers among the ...Read More
THE OLYMPICS BEGIN WHEN PHELPS DIVES INAugust 10, 2008 | Detroit Free PressBEIJING - Ten thousand athletes. More than 200 competing nations. And there you are, one man, alone on your block, ...Read More