The full guest list for Oprah’s Olympic Party in Millennium Park

9.2.08

Source: THE WATCHER Oprah Winfrey's's PR folks have released the full list of Olympians who will gather in Millennium Park on Wednesday for a special edition of her talk show. The  tickets that were available to the public have already been snapped up (as this Tribune story notes). There will also be some lawn seats available for the 10 a.m. (read more)

Source: AJC.COM By Jeff Schultz Beijing - The last time Jack Bauerle went through a midlife crisis, it played out like Benjamin Braddock’s pool party in, “The Graduate.” Yes. Plastics. “My dad was a manufacturer’s rep,” Bauerle said. “He did actually say to me one day: ‘Jackson. Plastics. It’s a big deal.’ His best friend invented the plastic straw.” And so, for once in (read more)

Source: TEAMUSA.ORG By Aimee Berg BEIJING - When athletes win multiple Olympic medals, they sometimes say the first one is the sweetest but Kara Lynn Joyce insists "it keeps getting sweeter and sweeter" every time. On Sunday morning, when Joyce looked at the silver medal she helped the US 4x100-meter free relay team earn, all she could think of was how grateful (read more)

Source: THE DETROIT NEWS by John Niyo BEIJING -- Kara Lynn Joyce was a late addition to the U.S. Olympic swimming team. But now that she's here, the former Ann Arbor Pioneer star intends to make good on a second chance. She certainly did that Sunday, helping the U.S. 400-meter freestyle relay team to a silver medal at the National Aquatic Center. Joyce, (read more)

Source: DETROIT NEWS By John Niyo BEIJING -- In what he hopes is a bit of foreshadowing, Michael Phelps began his quest for the most storied Olympic record in fine form Saturday. He broke his own Olympic record. Diving into the pool for the first time in competition at the dazzling new National Aquatics Center, Phelps lowered his Olympic mark in the men's (read more)