MEMORABLE MOMENTS
Team USA Soccer Victory over Canada

If more soccer games were like the Americans’ 4-3 overtime victory over Canada in the semifinals, we would be a futbol nation instead of a football country. The Americans then went on to beat Japan for the gold medal.

The magic of “Blade Runner”
Oscar Pistorius, the South African double-amputee, finished last in his 400-meter semifinal heat. But he showed the world the possibilities of the human spirit and helped, in no small way, change the idea of what it means to be “disabled.”