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Faster, Higher, Stronger

SOFTBALL

Sorry for piling up on you, fellas, but while Chinese women will be challenging for medals, you men (playing baseball of course) will be also-runs who are just happy to be here.

SWIMMING

A swimmer's favorite:

Seven days of no swimming makes one weak.

SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING

Chinese women will be aiming for a medal. Happily for men, this is a women-only event. For once, no male-female achievement comparisons can be made.

TABLE TENNIS">TENNIS

Whiff-whaff, flim-flam, ping-pong.

All names of table tennis for the sound the ball makes while being smashed about on the table.

For a change, Chinese men are equals to the women in this event, both competing for nothing but gold. However, if there were to be an upset, the men are more likely to be the culprit because if you look at history... Ah well, let's let the men off this time.

TAEKWONDO

Choi Hong Hi (1918-2002), Korean who named traditional Korean martial art style Taekwondo:

Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

TENNIS

Martina Navratilova, tennis great who never lost much in her day:

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

TRIATHLON

While taekwondo and triathlon both debuted as the newest Olympic sports at the Sydney 2000 Games, triathlon was literally the newest sport. Although the origins of taekwondo date back thousands of years, the triathlon dates back to 1978.