BEIJING Women's gymnastics at the Olympics always lifts or breaks your heart. On Wednesday, it did both. Few athletes in the world can make you catch your breath in disbelief or define the line of human beauty more powerfully than Americans Shawn Johnson on the balance beam or Nastia Liukin on the... -
Athleticism Almost Trumped by Skepticism
BEIJING Women's gymnastics at the Olympics always lifts or breaks your heart. On Wednesday, it did both. Few athletes in the world can make you catch your breath in disbelief or define the line of human beauty more powerfully than Americans Shawn Johnson on the balance beam or Nastia Liukin on the...-
By Thomas Boswell