O SAY CAN YOU SEE WHAT NATION I AM?August 17, 2008 | Detroit Free PressBEIJING - If it isn't about representing your country, why do they play the national anthem when you win? It is ...Read More
EIGHT! PHELPS BLITZES SPITZ’S RECORD WITH LAST-EVENT GOLD MEDALAugust 17, 2008 | Detroit Free PressBEIJING - The journey ended, fittingly, with Michael Phelps not in the pool but above it, cheering on his ...Read More
TRACK & FIELD: A TRIP TO THE WALL, TO WORLD RECORDAugust 17, 2008 | Detroit Free PressDAY 10: The big race, the big climb, the big difference.BEIJING - "Fruits? Almonds?" he says in Chinese.His ...Read More
PHELPS REACHES GLORY WITH LAST-GASP LUNGEAugust 16, 2008 | Detroit Free PressBEIJING - A swimmer wins with the slightest touch. One straining hand. One lonely finger. The barest graze can be ...Read More
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