Sydney Olympics 2000

Off-field battles of this kind were once unheard of as far as the Olympics were concerned but are now widespread because of the huge expansion in the global movement of top players.All but three of Nigeria's 22-man squad, for example, now ...

No qualified coachChen, from China's central city of Wuhan, has had difficulty finding qualified coaches or players to practise with in Taiwan.Beijing fears her so much that it bars active and retired national coaches and players from travelling to Taiwan to ...

Sydney: Japanese head coach Koji Ueno's plan for a low-key build-up to the Summer Olympics to avoid the pressure that has weighed down his swimmers in the past lasted as long as it took Tomoko Hagiwara to walk out of Sydney ...

Tough-love trainingWith a month to go before Sydney, he drove his runners 2,000 km across China to Duoba, making his team run at each stop to adjust to the altitude."Training at altitude is good for the body - it improves oxygen ...