Reporter Saves Runner from Crying Game

Kirghiz runner Luneba Akesana was in tears after she was told she had arrived too late to register for the 400 meters.

Telephones Ring Hot for Fencers

The five public telephones at Shijingshan Gymnasium were in great demand yesterday as fencers in the Men and Women’s Epee Team finals queued up to tell friends and family back home the latest results.

Basketball by the Numbers

Most of them are really “giants”; anyone under 1.95 meters is a shorty. The tallest of all is Neil Fingleton, 2.30 meters, from the Great Britain. Following him is China’s Yao Ming at 2.23 meters.

Silver Star Collapses from Dehydration

Twenty-two-year-old Spaniard Juan Manuel Molina collapsed to the ground with dehydration after he won silver in the Men’s 20km Long-distance Walk yesterday. He was sent to hospital immediately after his collapse and put on a drip.