Living Up To Their Promise

YANA KLOCHKOVA
The Ukrainian swimmer, dubbed "the female Phelps," was an Olympic Solidarity athlete before Sydney, where she won double gold in the women's 200-m and 400-m individual medley. Last week, she became the first woman ever to do the double again. "When you do it once, that is very important," she says. "When you win twice and make history, that stays in the record books forever."

TSHERING CHHODEN and TASHI PELJOR
Bhutan had never won an Olympic match until current OS athletes Chhoden and Peljor scored archery's biggest first-round upsets...

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