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Discussion in 'Android Apps & Games' started by tliebeck, Aug 23, 2011.
Hello all,
How to get FX
Current Play Store Version
To get the current version (2.x) from the Play Store, simply click here:
Download via Play Store
Beta Testing
FX can be beta tested by either downloading APKs directly (links will be posted in this thread) or via the FX beta channel on Google Play. At any given time, there may or may not be a release in the beta channel. (There won't be a release when a beta has just been pushed into production).
To join the Google Play public beta test and receive automatic updates:
Step 1: Join this Google+ community: https://plus.google.com/communities/101301040394875566704
Step 2: Visit this page to opt-in for beta testing: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/nextapp.fx
Beta APKs are also posted in this thread.
Step 3: Get FX from the Google Play Store: Download via Play Store
If you'd prefer to download an APK directly:
Go to the last page of this thread and grab a beta APK by clicking a download link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1253399&goto=newpost
APKs of FX are archived here:
Index of /fx
Notable versions:
FX 1.5.2, r286: last release of the 1.x series. Does not use Holo-based UI. http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r286/FX_r286.apk
FX 126.96.36.199, r2043: first release of the 2.0 stable series. http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r2043/FX_r2043.apk
Root add-on:
The root add-on is available for direct download here: http://android.nextapp.com/fx/FXRoot.apk
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I just tried this, excellent UI. I was (am) currently using File Expert (very happy with it), but this looks much better. Have not been able to connect to my PC yet (but haven't tried too hard).
Also, File Expert has a "Favorites" which is real nice for most used folders.
Also, when I "Sort" by date, it sorts from oldest to newest, needs to go from newest to oldest (so newest is at top), doesn't appear to have that option. Will try this for a few days.
1. Connected to PC, had my Username wrong.
2. Still need to sort by decending date.
3. I can only copy 1 file to the clipboard, should be able to copy multiple.
4. Don't think I need a "Favorites" with the categories you have, but it would be nice (and necessary if you don't fix the sort issue).
5. Need a way to EXIT the app. Can't use Back, and there's no exit button. Have to hit Home and kill the app with a killer of some sort (I use GO Launcher).
Thanks for the suggestions. Descending sorts are now on the TODO list.
Selecting multiple files is accomplished by swiping horizontally across items and then using the File menu Cut/Copy/Delete items:
The context menu (tap and hold menu) currently only operates on the individual item on which it is pressed. I think this is better behavior...if we have the context menu operate on all items, it might be more confusing if some selected items are present only off the screen.
With regard to exiting the app...the home key is the "exit" key. From what I've seen, most popular Android file managers have the back key close the application and return you to the home screen when pressing it once or twice at the top level. When you press the back button at the top level, they raise a "toast message" indicating that you can "Press the back button again to exit". Most people seem to equate this with doing "File->Quit" in a desktop application, but that's not what's happening.
Each of these popular file managers does in fact close itself and take you to the home screen, but the app is very likely still loaded into memory. They're not doing anything wrong here...this is exactly how Android is supposed to work. The problem is that the Android application lifecycle is different than that of a desktop computer, i.e., Android *wants* to keep as many apps non-running cached/suspended in the background as possible.
The user manual for SystemPanel has some info on how Android works in this regard specifically see: Task Management | android.nextapp.com
I can certainly add a setting to make FX "exit" to the home screen like other file managers, but it won't actually terminate the app. Having an app actually terminate itself is bad design per Android engineers, see Dianne Hackborn's posts here: System.exit - Android Developers | Google Groups
I may wind up adding a "Favorites" or "Bookmarks" item either within the "Files" section or as its own "Favorites" section at the top level. I do want to have a bit more customization on the home screen as well, including the ability to eliminate items that you don't want.
Thanks again for the suggestions!
I figured out the swiping thing, but if I swipe 3 files, and I long press on one, I can copy, but it it only copies the one I pressed (with all 3 highlighted). How to copy and paste 3 items at once?
I don't need a separate "exit" button, but it would be nice if the "back" button clicked out of the app (I think most apps do that). If I click HOME and say I forgot to disconnect from my wifi PC connection, I assume that connection is still live with FX running in the background. I'd rather make sure nothing is running in FX when I "quit".
To cut/copy/delete multiple selected items, just tap the File menu in the lower left corner. Having the context menu operate on selected items (vs. the item clicked) could be a bit confusing in a scenario where one or more items were selected off screen (while none were selected on screen).
Currently all network connections are closed after 90 seconds of idle time (this will be configurable at some point in the not-too-distant future). "Sessions" remain active for a bit longer (5 minutes at present) and will also be configurable. An active "session" doesn't actually mean any connections are in place, just that FX is remembering login/password info for that server temporarily in case you want to establish a connection.
The Bluetooth push server currently remains active indefinitely until it is manually stopped. I will be adding a default-enabled option to auto-stop after a period of inactivity. The Bluetooth push server does have an icon in the notification area whenever it is running though.
Having windows open (either the active window or otherwise) to a network location will NOT cause connections to remain active. Connections will be re-established once the app is reopened and action is taken within the window.
You can open the "Net Status" window (tap "Windows" menu, then "Operations," then "Net Status") to see the connection manager working.
Got it, that works. Just a little confusing at first, since the long press context menu is similar (the same?) as the phone "menu" button, but doesn't do the same thing...
How long will the beta be good? I hate to lose the networking option, but also hate to pay $3 for it, when it's free in File Expert (and Astro).
They're a little different, but are intentionally quite similar.
If you tap "Tools" and then "About" it will tell you when the current beta release expires. Later betas will continue to extend that deadline.
Just noticed there is no "Share" with Dropbox. Can't live without that. I know I can copy and paste, but that's not as easy as hitting share in the pop up menu... no option to "send to" it either. I'll be using File Expert until this is added. Otherwise it's fantastic!
Any plans to add root features?
Thanks! I'm working on adding support for using FX as a file chooser and revamping the send menu. The current version of FX appears to actually have DropBox show up in the send menu if you select "email", which is of course technically a bug. I hope to at least have the file chooser in place for the next release (very soon).
The next release will also have support for double-tapping back to exit and has a revised sort menu to allow descending sorts.
Root support will likely be added at some point, possibly as a separate add-on module. I don't have an exact timeframe on when this can happen, but I'm guessing a lot of folks are going to want root access.
As someone who typically uses a command-line for root operations on any Linux-based system, I do need to do more research to see how people really want to *use* root in an Android file manager. Removing bloatware, remounting filesystems as rw/ro, or permissions changes come to mind of course. I'm sure some folks will simply want to use it mostly for exploration rather than modification.
I'd want to keep the typical Android use-cases straightforward while trying as hard as possible to prevent people from inadvertently destroying their filesystems (e.g., additional warnings, disabling recursive operations by default). Very much open to suggestions here, especially in regard to identifying the most common root tasks.
Hello all, 0.57 is out now. The market seems to lag a little bit lately with
update uploads...make sure your version says 0.57 in Tools->About.
Added file chooser for use with third-party applications (e.g., Gmail, DropBox) to select files to attach/upload.
Excellent, added features seem to work well. I am rooted, but really don't use explorer to mess with things, I'm sure there are others out there with suggestions. I pretty much just use Titanium and link2SD. Just changed my Dock shortcut from File Expert to FX... full time "testing" now.
Played with it a little. I like the GUI overall & the speed on HTC DHD.
1- Tools button- Actually add file management tools to the list. Seems strange that they aren't there & that the button is so dominate for such little function.
2- Add folder size info to ALL folders/files when exploring a folder & at the main view. Bug? View Size in List View doesn't work at all. View date works. Nice if I could see both. I haven't seen this in any app yet. I was at first excited to see the size of my SD card shown but PO'd that no other folder or file sizes were. How else do we make choices about some file management work?
3- PLEASE add Move or Move To as Tools. To Copy, Cut, Paste is a PITA, & not intuitive. I see friends with so many multiple copies of the same file on their systems because of this on their Macs & PC's. It drives me crazy & is a peeve of mine. Ghost App (my fav file app) has the best application of this but it takes a bit of practice to embed in the head the dual pane selection / move to process. Is it because a scrolling drop down list of places to move a file to is too difficult to impliment? Whatever, at least add Move as an option? I won't buy the program without this & a few other such file management commands beyond the basics.
4 - Add Rename to file management tools & if possible Batch Rename !!!!! Really need this for working with image files!
Looks promising. Thanks.
A few more comments. I really like your image viewer. IMO it has potential to be a seperate App, if more image functions were put with it, if as with image browser app, QuickPic. I don't mean image effects. There is enough of that out there, but image or browser management tools. QP is the best browser IMO, but yours has some nice features, such as view actual size.
What I found odd though, is in the folder list of my main image folder, if I swipe to select a folder, or press Tools, there is ZERO functionality. None in tools, one via a long press on the selected folder, nothing anywhere else that I can find. Is this a bug? Selecting something should allow you to do something with the selection. There should be, IMO, global tools, under TOOLS, & folder specific tools via a long press, such as move, rename, copy, delete, send to, create shortcut & more. Please consider putting a zillion file management tools within "Tools" or rename Tools. Going to read "About", within tools makes no sense to me.
Also, folders "hidden" with QuickPic, are hidden from your app but not from other file explorer apps, such as Ghost. I thought this was a QP specific function, as it doesn't write a .nomedia file to the folder, but is a function within QP & not the folder? But maybe not.
Ok, If I Hide a folder in QuickPic it does write a no media file to the folder. So then the folder doesn't show up in your Media /Images folder. But I can see the hidden folder & it's contents if I explore ths SD card folder system. I also found how to view hidden system files like the actual .nomedia files, under "View" ....
My apologies, as some things are as you intended. We just need to find.or learn them.
I can't seem to make the icons & text view in list view of the Media Images folder access smaller yet? It only seems to make thumbs smaller on grid or gallery view where there is no text. I'll keep playing.
Hi Chip,
Thanks for the suggestions.
The menu layout is still somewhat being decided. All file management stuff should still remain in the File menu though, "Tools" is currently being used for more generic functionality that does not belong in the File/View menus.
Folder size calculation can be done on demand by clicking "View->Details" or using the context menu to select details on a specific folder. Calculating folder sizes takes a bit of work, and autocalculating (especially for top-level items) require a good expenditure of CPU whether the user cared about it or not. We don't want to conusme CPU cycles (which translate to power/battery life) unless specifically asked.
Cut/Copy are generally the same operations as move/copy. When you select cut or copy, you are simply indicating your desire to move/copy those files somewhere else at some point. Cutting or copying actually doesn't *DO* anything to the files except taking a note of their names/locations within FX. It's only when you tap paste that an operation is actually performed. The nice thing about cut/copy is that you give the user the freedom to continue working exploring until they're ready to choose the destination for the files. As a for-instance, the user might want to create a new network connection, connect to it, and then create a new folder on the that server before moving/copying (pasting) the files to it.
Batch rename is something I'd like to add at some point, but it is a bit of a unique utility so it'll likely be post 1.0.
There will likely be a "rescan media" option coming soon to the tools menu when viewing image folders. There currently is no context menu for them though.
I do want to add some basic crop/resize functionality to the image viewer at some point. Especially useful for those times when you want to take a pic with the camera phone and send them by email; there's no sense sending a giant grainy 8MP image.
0.70 (announcement in a sec) adds support for showing image thumbnails in list views. We still don't show any image thumbnails unless they have been generated by Android, so any hidden folder with a .nomedia item in it likely won't have previews available. This will likely change in the future.
Tahnks again
Hello again all...0.70 is out now.
This release requires that you uninstall FX and then reinstall it from the market. I'm very sorry for this unpleasant issue, but there is a bug in Android where the updater doesn't work properly when certain deployment flags are changed. A dialog has been added to the product to detect the effects of this problem, so you'll automatically be prompted if this is necessary (and given a direct link to uninstall it).
There are two major changes in this release:
Context menus (i.e., tap-and-hold menus) now operate on all selected items. If you tap-hold an unselected item, the context menu will operate on that single item (and the selection will be cleared). This was a frequent complaint with 0.70, please let me know how you like the new behavior.
The audio catalog has been overhauled. Playlists can now be reorganized by dragging and dropping individual tracks within them (this still needs some fine tuning, e.g., the scrolling speeds might be a bit too quick). Additionally ringtones/notifications/podcasts/alarms are now separated from music. Album art is displayed in many more places as well (this can be turned off in the settings).
There's a new permission added to the list, android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS ("Write system settings"). This was added to enable you to set the default ringtone/alarm/notification sounds from within the Music/Audio catalog browser.
Thanks again and greatly appreciate feedback and suggestions!
Shame it doesn't let itself be stored on the SD card. I have to choose between File Expert and FX File Explorer because my internal phone memory is limited. FX File Explorer is a beta. File Expert is not. That must determine my choice.
This should be corrected very soon.
Hey there, I decided to try FX without the (soon to be) paid features, just to get a different angle; also the fact that I'm using a low-end, smaller screen phone might give you some more varied feedback on the versatily of the app.
Things that I've noticed:
- The speed for such a nice UI is comendable, to say the least. Even in a low-res phone like mine, the icons, the text and the menu look crisp and well defined, without sacrificing efficiency and performance.
- It has the usual stuff, sharing through several apps or mediums (BT, Evernote, Dropbox, Tweetdeck, et. al.); in the case of images, the ability to preview it inside the app is always nice, as is the chance to set it as a wallpaper.
- Selecting a file is really intuitive once you get to it. My old file manager (File Expert) made you click a box to select multiple files; while in high end phones that might be easy, on such a small screen one, it wasn't as comfortable as expected, while by no means a difficult task; also on File Expert, it had a small pop-up tools kinda thing; in such a small screen, it was indeed a feat to be able to tap on the correct icon (my particular phone seems to be wrongly calibrated, since it recognizes taps on the TOP part of any control). Yours on the other hand, considering the size of the icons/thumbnails, it takes advantage of the touchscreen by swiping on top of them to select, and the action icons are big enough to pose no particular problem.
- In the same vein as the last thing, the icons for the actions (and the menu in itself) are incredibly easy to adapt to, and with the introduction of the multiselection context menu, all the better.
- Love the little overlays on top of media-specific folders. These ties in with my final thoughts on the app so far.
Now a few things I would love to see:
- Echoing the request to be able to move the app to SD. I know it's already on your plans, but it's still worth the mention.
- I guess that the ability to change the actual size of the icons/thumbnails would be a nice perk, but by no means a make-it-or-break-it kind of function.
- I normally use FB pictures as contacts images in my phone, but I guess there might be people who would love the chance to set a contact picture from the app itself, just as you can set your homescreen BG.
- Following the context sensitive menu, in my mind making a long tap on an empty space (or a folder) would make a second pop-up menu to appear, with options like paste or such. Sure, the clipboard is up there and it's pretty clear, but if you want to move some files into a folder in the same screen, doing a long tap would get you a pop-up menu to paste the copied selection in there; just an idea.
Final thoughts
The thing I love the most of this particular file manager is that, for us folks who are just migrating to the Android OS and are still weary of rooting or outright messing with the phone, gives us a familiar enviroment to work with; the similarity to any desktop file explorer is uncanny and really newbie-friendly.
Next version has this enabled. I apologize for not having it previously enabled but it's a bit frustrating from a development perspective. Once it's enabled your app must be built against Froyo (Android 2.2), and if you want backward compatibility with Eclair (2.1), Google's solution is that you "be very careful and test more."
All our icons are actually scalable vector graphics images (SVGs), but Android unfortunately requires us to turn them into PNG bitmaps to deploy them in the application. Still may be able to get such support in place in the future though. I'd love to have pinch-stretch zoom gesture support in file lists. We could do it by adding additional very-large PNG images to the app, but these would probably have to be downloadable and live on the SD card to avoid having a profound effect on the size of the APK download.
I'm a bit afraid of adding the required permissions to do this. As a for-instance, our SystemPanel app has a 4.5+ star review and has more than a half-million downloads. Every couple of weeks someone will post a review of the app claiming that we don't need a given permission and that we must be using it to do something really sinister. Adding any access to contacts would bring these folks out in droves (even though the same folks wouldn't blink at giving an app superuser access).
The problem here is that a lot of screens won't have any whitespace. Folks will get attached to this and become frustrated when the no-whitespace condition occurs (i.e., viewing a scrolling list or a grid of files that exactly fills the screen).
Have though about adding a Paste option to the File menu itself but didn't like the redundancy of it, and it *only* works when the clipboard is present.
Thanks for all the kind words and suggestions!
While the Beta is GREAT, I just went back to File Expert. I turned off the "Full Version" check mark to see what the free version might be like, and almost everything turns off. I don't really care about the separate media sections, but the networking section is a must (free or paid). I may reinstall once this comes off beta, but for now FE does pretty much the same (with networking and root access)... just not nearly as nice of a UI.


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Young Egyptian actress Hala Shiha has revealed that her ultimate goal in her career is the opportunity to act alongside prominent Egyptian actor Ahmad Zaki, whom she considers as her role model in the acting world. Hala stressed that Ahmad has resembled throughout his journey the perfect image of an actor, who is able to portray his roles to the utmost perfection.
According to the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />London based daily, Dar Al Hayat, Hala noted that this year is a very hectic one for her filled with offers to star in different films. The actress is currently preparing to shoot the first scenes of her upcoming film "Ghawi Hubb" alongside Egyptian singer Mohammad Foad and actor Ramiz Jalal.
The movie is to be filmed in Cairo, Sharm El Sheikh and a European country, which has not been decided on yet. The film revolves mainly around Hala and Mohammad who fall in love but encounter several obstacles in their way. Mohammad is supposed to sing three different songs for Hala in the film.
Next July has been set as the release date for the film, which is to be directed by Mohammad Kamal Al Shinawi. The film will mark Hala's fifth the last being alongside prominent Egyptian comedian-actor Adel Imam in "Arees Min Jiha Amnieh".
Hala's had also recently took part in the television drama "Raji'lik Ya Ikindria" (I'm Coming Back to you Alexandria). The actress had recently completed shooting the scenes set in France and Germany. The drama will mark Shiha's return to the silver screen after an absence that lasted for several years. Television was the place where Hala made her debut in the acting world when she starred in the television drama series "Al Wajh Al Akhar" (The Other Face) alongside prominent Egyptian actor Nour El Sherif.
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By Lorraine Morong
The August 9 concert celebrating the Madbury Union Congregational Church's 100th anniversary promises to be a once-in-a-lifetime event, according to Nancy Page who chairs the church's music committee.
Pianists Will Ogmundson and Sivan Etedgee will both be on hand. These musicians trace their relationship with the Madbury church and with each other back to when they were students in the Music Department at the University of New Hampshire.
Ogmundson teaches and composes in Sutton, while Etedgee is on the faculty of Newton Music Academy in Massachusetts. They will be playing a piece four hands, then each will accompany the church choir for a song or two with the church organist, Barbara LaBranche, conducting.
Violinist Olga Litvintsova, a partner of Etedgee in the pairing "OS2," will join Etedgee in performing some Brahms pieces arranged by UNH faculty member and composer Chris Kies. Litvintsova studied in Ukraine and is a performing teacher in the Boston area.
Original works by John Michael Albert, a composer with the UNH Music Department, will be on the program as well. He will be remembered as a former Portsmouth Poet Laureate.
Ogmundson is expected to play period rags and is working up to one of his famous piano medleys based on 1914 music.
Some local musicians have been invited to join the fun and there may be a sing-a-long.
The concert will begin at 7 p.m. in the church. Those who have attended the dinner earlier will be seated first; unreserved space will be filled on a first-come, first-seated basis. No entrance fee has been designated; donations can be made at will.
The anniversary celebration will continue on Sunday morning at 10 a.m. with a special festive worship service and guest preacher, the Rev. Richard Slater, Associate Conference Minister of the N.H. Conference, United Church of Christ.
Following this service, long-time members Leslie Gearwar, Helen Gahan Costa, and Andrea Ross will cut a big birthday cake which will be enjoyed by neighbors and friends of the church.
The selectmen have been notified that on Sept. 20 between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. three of 10 runners will be coming from Tolend Road, down French Cross Road, Old Stage Road, Mill Hill Road, Town Hall Road, crossing Route 155 and down Madbury Road in Durham.
These runners are sponsored by a Canadian firm, Running Challenge, which aims to enhance the building of leadership and cohesion.
The selectmen decided to let the Police Department worry about this event.
Jason Berndtson was in to bring the selectmen up-to-date relative to the assisted living facility soon to be built on his property at 304 Knox Marsh Road. He reported having all needed approvals from the state and said "optimistically, it will be a 9-month construction time frame." He hopes to start building in October.


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|Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Reflections in a male eye.
Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1993
|Persona designada:
|John Huston; John Huston; John Huston
|Tipo de material:
|Publicación gubernamental, Publicación gubernamental nacional, Recurso en Internet
|Tipo de documento
|Libro, Recurso internet
|Todos autores / colaboradores:
Gaylyn Studlar; David Desser; John Huston
|1560981946 9781560981947 1560982926 9781560982920
|Número OCLC:
|Includes an interview with, and short stories by Huston.
Filmography: p. 279-306.
|xvi, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
|The wartime films of John Huston : film noir and the emergence of the therapeutic / David Desser --
Revisiting the recordings of wars past : remembering the documentary trilogy of John Huston / Gary Edgerton --
Havana episode : the revolutionary situation of We Were Strangers / Robert Sklar --
Traven, Huston, and the textual treasures of the Sierra Madre / John Engell --
The undeclared war : political Reflections in a Golden Eye / Stephen Cooper --
John Huston and The Maltese Falcon / James Naremore --
Heroic, antiheroic, aheroic : John Huston and the problematical protagonist / Martin Rubin --
Mastery through masterpieces : American culture, the male body, and Huston's Moulin Rouge / Virginia Wright Wexman --
Shadowboxing : Fat City and the malaise of masculinity / Gaylyn Studlar --
John Huston : a biographical sketch / David Desser --
Encounter with Rui Nogueira and Bertrand Tavernier (an interview with John Huston) / Ruth Hottell --
"Fool" (from the American Mercury) / John Huston --
"Figures of Fighting Men" (from the American Mercury) / John Huston --
"Undirectable Director" (from Life magazine) / James Agee --
"John Huston" (from The American Cinema) / Andrew Sarris --
"Johnny, We Finally Knew Ye" (from the Village Voice) / Andrew Sarris.
|edited by Gaylyn Studlar and David Desser.
Despite his achievements, Huston's work has often been spurned by movie critics and film scholars. This anthology, the first in-depth study of Huston's films since his death in 1987, challenges the conventional wisdom through a vigorous reassessment of the director's work. Bringing together recent essays, classic pieces by Andrew Sarris and James Agee, as well as two Huston short stories and an interview with the filmmaker, Reflections in a Male Eye explores the ideology of Huston's films, their social and political backdrop, and his vision of the American male.
Arguing that Huston's point of view was revealed subtly through his selection of topics and direction, Robert Sklar, Gary Edgerton, John Engell, and Stephen Cooper contend that it was the historical and political context of Huston's films - not just directorial personality - that gave his work a distinct stamp. Other contributors, among them James Naremore, Martin Rubin, and Virginia Wright Wexman, examine the representation of masculinity, the image of the male body, and the use of problematical heroes in Huston's films. They consider such issues as male bonding, sensitivity, powerlessness, and failure alongside Huston's questioning of American idealism and traditional male gender roles.
Reflections in a Male Eye includes a complete filmography covering Huston's work as actor, director, and screenwriter and numerous stills and frame enlargements.
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- Cinema -- Films (Motion pictures) -- Directing.
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The new National Stadium in Beijing – the Bird's Nest, as it is known – an elaborate latticework, like stainless-steel macrame, is one of the great architectural marvels of the modern world. And its effect is to stun everyone who sees it into a moment of silence. Standing on the road abutting the stadium, and gazing towards it over a wooden fence, Mr Ling wore the expression of a man in the throes of something approaching rapture. He was from Beijing, he said, a civil servant, now retired. He was wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the message I CAN BELIEVE THE WORLD. 'Emotionally,' he said, 'I feel more self-esteem and excitement than I have ever felt. I will remember this moment my entire life.'
China has a lot invested in the Olympic Games – and not only the $20 billion that has been spent on building the new sports stadiums, airport terminals, subways and other facilities that will serve the city in the long term. More significantly, it has the investment of national pride: $20 billion is roughly the same amount that, 40 years ago, the US spent on putting the first man on the moon – a demonstration to the world of the primacy of America and the capitalist way. The Beijing Olympics might be seen as China's moon-shot – the showpiece of the nation's emergence as a global power. From my hotel window I looked on to the CCTV Tower, the new headquarters of China's state broadcaster, yet another architectural marvel comprising two glass blocks in an inverted 'L' shape, fused into one vertigo-inducing structure. Below it a huge hoarding pictured a troop of soldiers marching purposefully beside a message in Chinese and English: TO PROVIDE A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT AND GOOD SERVICE FOR OLYMPICS - SERVING WITH HEARTS, MINDS AND SPIRIT.
There have been public education campaigns against spitting, littering and pushing at bus stops; smoking – which in China could almost be an Olympic event in itself – has been banned in restaurants and public buildings. In every corner of the city, armies of workers toiled over flowerbeds and verges, eviscerating the streets of the slightest scintilla of litter.
In Tiananmen Square, under the all-seeing gaze of a huge portrait of Chairman Mao, a group of oldsters up from the provinces, wearing matching yellow caps and plastic wallets around their necks containing their names and contact numbers, paused in front of the 10ft-high clock (sponsored by Omega) that has been counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds to the Games' opening moment, August 8 – that is, 8/8/2008 – at 8.08pm. Eight is considered the most fortuitous number in Chinese culture, portending good luck and prosperity. Nothing, it seems, has been left to chance.
At the Olympic Games media centre, an American official, Jeff Ruffolo, walked me around a scale model of the Olympic site, extolling the wonders of the new developments. The Bird's Nest, which has been built at a cost of $500 million, will hold 90,000 people; planted around it are 1,021 trees irrigated by water 'captured' in and circulating from the nest. Beside the nest is the aquatic centre, known as the 'Water Cube' (cost $130 million), an aircraft hangar- size building, its roof and walls constructed of translucent blue dimpled plastic, lending it the appearance of having been blown by a dreamy child with a bubble wand. The 3,000 'bubbles' are actually membranes made of a substance called ETFE and filled with air. Computers monitor the air-pressure in each 'bubble', refilling them as necessary. The Gymnastics Building has cost a further $65 million, paid for by an anonymous Chinese donor. (It is significant that the four great architectural wonders of the new Beijing – the Bird's Nest, the Water Cube, the CCTV Tower and the National Grand Theatre, dubbed the 'Eggshell' – have been designed by foreign architects, a symbol both of China's willingness to look to the rest of the world to acquire the best and, perhaps, of the fact that years of isolationism militated against the training and development of any great home-grown architects.)
To the north of the Olympic complex, the 'forest park' has been specially stocked with animals – 'squirrels, rabbits, critters…' Ruffolo said – to create 'an ecological presence'. As a broadcaster, Ruffolo has covered the past four Olympics. The preparations for these Games, he told me, were 'the most impressive I've ever seen'.
The phrase I kept hearing in conversations was '
chi ku'. Its literal meaning is 'to eat bitterness', in the sense of fortitude in the face of suffering: 'We Chinese are a people that can eat bitterness.' But it also goes to the heart of the nation's sense of grievance, one might almost say victim hood. Every Chinese child can tell you the story of the 'Eight-Nation Allied Forces' – Britain, the US, Germany, France, Russia, Japan, Italy and Austria – that in 1900 laid siege to Beijing, quashing the nationalist Boxer Rebellion and ransacking the city. And then there is the phrase 'the sick man of Asia'.
'This is what Chinese people have been called,' Li Zhanjun, the director of the Olympic media office, told me, wincing slightly as he said it. For China to host the Olympic Games, he went on, was a symbolic moment in China's transition 'from a weak country to a strong power', and the realisation of 'a 100-year-old dream'.
The first of the modern-day Olympic Games was held in 1896 in Athens, but it was not until 1932 that the first Chinese athlete, Liu Changchun, participated. The story of Liu has become part of national legend. Li Zhanjun told me the story.
Liu was a celebrated sprinter from Dalian, in China's north-eastern Liaoning Province. In 1931 the Japanese occupied north-east China and created a puppet state called Manchukuo, and concocted a plan to send Liu to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles to represent Manchukuo. When the patriotic Liu refused to represent Manchukuo, an equally patriotic Chinese general, Zhang Xueliang, offered him the financial support to make his way to America as China's sole Olympic representative.
Liu set sail from Shanghai to Los Angeles. 'After about a month on the boat, my father had gained a few kilos,' his son Liu Hongliang would later recount. 'He was not at his best.' Three days after he arrived in Los Angeles, he competed in the preliminary heats in the 100m and 200m sprints, but was eliminated. By now the money donated by Zhang had run out, and Liu was obliged to solicit donations from the Chinese community in Los Angeles to buy his ticket home. He returned to China a broken and bitter man. But his dream – or so the story has it – was that one day China would host the Olympic Games.
Liu Changchun, Li went on, died in 1983 – in the same year that China's most famous athlete, Liu Xiang, the hurdler who became the first Chinese athlete to win an Olympic track and field gold medal (in 2004) was born. Liu Changchun was 74 when he died – exactly the same number of years that had elapsed between his participation in the Olympics and Liu Xiang setting a new world record for the 110m hurdles (in 2006, at the Super Grand Prix in Lausanne). Li shot me a meaningful look, waiting for the significance of this to sink in.
'A lot of people have said that Liu Changchun was divine or something.'
'Yes, that Liu Changchun made this happen. The national hero was reborn.'
During the Mao years, China was excluded from the Games; the Chinese Olympic Committee was not readmitted to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) until 1979. Five years later, again in LA, China won its first ever gold medal – taking 15 golds overall and finishing fourth in the medals table – this in a year when the USSR boycotted the Games. In 2004 China came second in the medals table, winning 32 golds to the USA's 34. The USA won 102 medals in total, China 63.
In the past, Li told me, foreign armies had come to China to make war (he diplomatically neglected to single out the British). 'This time we will welcome half a million people to Beijing as our friends. That's why we appreciate the Olympic Games so much. And this is not just the Chinese government, but the whole of the Chinese people.'
I raised the matter of Tibet, and how global coverage of the uprising had tarnished China's reputation in the run-up to the Games.
Li nodded. The 'negative coverage' that had arisen in the past few months had four causes, he said. 'One, some people do not like China's system, and I think there is a little jealousy for China's rise. Two, because it helps newspapers' circulation to be critical. Three, some journalists don't understand China, and they are given the wrong information. And four, perhaps we need to learn more how to communicate with the foreign media.'
But did he not agree that the Olympic torch procession in Europe had been a public relations disaster? Li did not falter. 'I don't think so,' he said. 'Billions of people take part in the Olympic Games; you cannot promise that everyone will have the same opinion or idea as you. Those people who were protesting were not just protesting against China and the Beijing Games; they were protesting against the Olympic Games itself, because the torch relay is part of the Olympic Games.'
Before we ended our conversation, Li wanted to remind me of the official slogan for the Beijing Olympics: One World, One Dream. And what is that dream, I asked. Li gave a beatific smile. 'Our dream is to make a world of friendship, progress and harmony, and develop together.'
Dr Susan Brownell offers a unique perspective on the importance of the Olympics to China. Brownell is an American anthropologist who first came to China in 1985 to study Chinese at Beijing University and a year later competed in the heptathlon in China's National College Games. She is now a Fulbright research scholar in residence at Beijing's Sport University, which occupies an impressive campus to the north of the city, where the visitor is greeted by two imposing statues – one of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, and the other of Mao Tse-Tung.
Brownell described the Olympics as 'a form of national redemption' for China; to fully understand its significance, she said, it was necessary to understand how 'traumatised' a society China had been, by a history of colonialism and conflict, and by the totalitarianism of the Mao years:
'When I first came here in 1985,' she said, 'there really was a general mood of depression over China, for two reasons; one was that the state-planned economy just did not stimulate motivation, but the other big reason was that people were still so traumatised from the Cultural Revolution. Everyone you met had a story. The younger people were not really old enough to have suffered personal attacks themselves but they had seen their parents either sent to the countryside, or attacked, denounced, beaten or jailed. At that time it was still not acceptable for people to talk about these things with other Chinese people. Whenever you met a Chinese person almost the first thing they would do would be to grab you and practically start crying on your shoulder about what had happened to them or their family. It's only in the last 10 years that people have started to be able to trust each other, and finally to believe in the future. And I don't think people in the West understand that.'
Brownell is the author of Beijing's Games: What the Olympics Mean to China. She also acted as translator for the biography of He Zhenliang, China's 'Mr Olympics', the honorary chairman of China's Olympic Committee, and the country's senior IOC member. Written by his wife, Liang Lijuan, the He biography chronicles China's years of isolation from the Olympic family, and He's personal efforts to bring the Games to Beijing, beginning with the country's failed bid to host the 2000 Olympics. It is a book that speaks both to China's sense of entitlement – 'For the world's most populous country to host the world's biggest sports festival is a logical and natural course of events,' Liang writes – and to its sense of grievance at having been denied for so long what it regards as its rightful place at the top table of world sport.
Pondering the failure of China's bid in 1993 to host the 2000 Olympics, which Sydney won by two votes, under the chapter heading 'Eight-Nation Allied Forces' Liang writes, 'If not for the strong political pressure from Western political circles, if not for the alliance of the Anglo-Saxon bloc against us, if not for the flagrant buying of votes by our competition, Beijing, which had led from the start, absolutely could have won.'
Describing the country's bid for the 2008 Games, Liang alludes to a conspiracy by the US to instigate 'Tibetan separatists, the Falun Gong fanatics, some human rights organisations and so on…' to 'fabricate false rumours in the media' in order to jeopardise Beijing's bid. In the end, the IOC voted overwhelmingly for Beijing. Brownell said that the commonly held belief that China was 'given' the Games on the condition of improving its record on human rights was somewhat wide of the mark.
'There were only vague expectations,' she said. 'Not even vague assurances.' There were 115 members of the IOC who were party to the decision, 'and many of them come from countries with human rights records that are worse than China's,' she added drily. 'What unified enough people behind China's bid – and it was the largest vote in favour of a city ever – was its economic and technical soundness. People had confidence that this Games would happen as proposed.'
Brownell believes that the criticism in the Western media over China's human rights record and its activities in Tibet is actually counterproductive, feeding as it does the national narrative of 'victimisation', in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can continue to depict itself as the nation's saviour. 'If these Games were successful,' she said, 'and if Chinese people finally felt that they'd taken their place as a major player on the world's stage, it would constitute such a huge change for the better, both in the way Chinese people see themselves and in the sense that the CCP would have to find new sources of legitimacy. But unfortunately that's not going to happen in the current atmosphere in which China is under attack by the Western press and politicians.'
China's system for developing Olympic athletes has also suffered from media stereotyping, Brownell believes. The country has never had a centralised system, scooping up children at an early age and press-ganging them into sports schools, as East Germany once did. 'Contrary to the stereotype, there's no law in China that enables you to jail a parent for not giving up their child,' she said.
In fact, not unlike the case of many black athletes in America, in recent years sport in China has been seen as a vehicle for upward social mobility, particularly for children from peasant families. Promising athletes are scouted at primary-school level and offered places within the sports programme – usually at one of the 3,000 government funded sports schools around the country. For the very best there is the opportunity of attending one of the 300 elite academies that are dedicated to training future Olympic athletes. (Some 70 per cent of China's full-time athletes are graduates of these schools.)
In many cases, Brownell said, their parents may not even understand what sports are, and a coach might have to explain the benefits of their child attending a training school. The opportunity to win glory for the nation would certainly figure on the list, Brownell said – but somewhere below the promise of good food and living conditions and a coveted hukou, the residency permit that enables someone to move from the countryside to the city. (Without this permit a migrant has no entitlement to education or medical insurance – a form of apartheid designed to control the migration of peasants to the cities in search of work.)
'Generally, the parents who most want their children to go to sports boarding school are not white-collar workers and are not urban,' she said. 'Educated, urban parents on the whole want their kids to get a good education in the regular system and go to university.'
It was no coincidence, Brownell said, that it was athletes from peasant backgrounds who had come to dominate certain women's sports in China – notably race walking, long-distance running, judo and weightlifting. Wang Junxia, the current world record holder in the 3,000m and 10,000m, is from a peasant background; as are the 2004 Athens gold medallist weightlifters Tang Gonghong and Chen Yanqing, the synchronised diving gold medallist Li Ting, and judo gold medallist Xian Dongmei – all of whom will be competing in Beijing.
'Women in China have less opportunity for social mobility than men,' Brownell said, 'and peasant women less than anybody else, so for them it really may well be the only chulu – literally, "way out" – that they'll ever have.'
China declines to reveal exactly what it spends on its sports programmes, but it is estimated that the government has spent $400-500 million over the past four years on training its elite athletes for the Olympics. (This compares with the $300 million that the United States Olympic Committee has invested in the same period.) Furthermore, China tends to concentrate its resources on its top 100-150 athletes, while the US funding is spread among 2,500-3,000 potential Olympians.
The Shichahai Sports School in Beijing is considered the flagship of the government's athletics training programme. Opened in 1958, the school has some 600 students, aged between six and 18. About half of the students are 'professional reserves' who have all their training, academic teaching, accommodation and expenses paid for by the government.
On the day I visited, journalists from China and Singapore and a film crew from the American TV channel HBO crowded into a reception room to be shown a short introductory film outlining the school's mission to produce young athletes who are 'brawny, struggling and successful', and extolling Shichahai's excellent training facilities, its record for producing world champions (31, and six Olympic gold medallists, including the table-tennis star Zhang Yining, who won two golds at Athens).
Pupils spend up to three hours each day being trained in their sporting disciplines, the remainder of their time being given over to academic work. Talking with Mrs Shi Fenghua, the vice principal, one was left in no doubt that the school's mission is to train winners. 'We don't agree that athletes can either win or lose,' she told me. 'You cannot value success and failure equally. And the athletes are supported by the government so definitely there is a goal there because the government want them to achieve better results.'
Did this put them under too much pressure, I wondered.
'It's a common thing that everybody in different jobs is under great pressure. As a professional athlete you have to take responsibility for your own choices and, if necessary, to sacrifice your youth.'
With the younger children, she went on, there was less emphasis on winning, and more on the virtues of participating. 'We attach great importance to the comprehensive quality of a person, and we have to consider their psychological condition and how much [pressure] they can stand. Also it is most important to cultivate a passion for sports. So the standards are different.'
Fewer than half of Shichahai's pupils go on to become professional (which is to say state-paid) athletes. Of the remainder, half will go on to university and half, as Shi put it, 'find jobs in society as common people'.
Shichahai gained international notoriety in 2005 when it was visited by the British Olympic rowing champion Matthew Pinsent, who was making a radio programme for the BBC. Pinsent, who described his visit as 'a pretty disturbing experience', found evidence of harsh treatment of the young children in the school, including one with red marks across his back after apparently being beaten by his coach. According to Pinsent, the boy confirmed that such beatings were normal. 'They take it as a normal thing,' Pinsent said. 'The boy said they don't hate the coach. Actually, they think that's a good thing, that the coach cares about you. They like you, so they train you strictly.'
When I asked Shi about allegations of abuse and corporal punishment, she brushed them aside. Coaches were subject to strict evaluation and ongoing supervision by 'a special team of professionals,' she said. 'What we care about most is the interest of the children, so we have special ways to ensure they are not abused.'
Walking around the school, minders at my shoulder, it was hard to make a meaningful judgement about this. In a large gymnasium, teenagers were practising volleyball apparently unfazed at being subjected to the unnatural cruelty of the world's press corps snapping at their ankles for photo-opportunities and soundbites. In another gym, small children were furiously smashing pingpong balls across a table at one another under the watchful eye of their coach. Moving from room to room one had the curious sense of the children having been sorted and graded by size. The volleyball players were all unnaturally – almost freakishly – tall; the gymnasts unnaturally short.
In one room, pungent with the smell of talcum powder, pint-sized eight-year-old boys with perfect sixpacks were hanging from wall-bars and executing backwards somersaults.
In another, two heartbreakingly pretty girls in pink-and-blue leotards were tippy-toeing along wooden beams, pausing to strike balletic poses – a nervous glance towards their coach – then turning, and tippy-toeing back.
One, a 10-year-old, told me she had been at the school for three years. Did she like it, I asked.
'Yes, I like it.'
And did she prefer to do gymnastics or her other lessons?
Her friends who were not at this school must have a very different childhood, without the pressure to train and succeed, I said. Did she sometimes wish she could be like them?
She considered the question. 'I will be better in the future compared to them. Because in the future when they are studying I will still be playing.' And what was her dream?
She smiled. 'I'm waiting to be a champion.'
And if you are not?
The smile fell from her face.
'Then definitely I'll feel very bad.'
A few weeks before arriving in Beijing I had
visited the US Olympic Training Centre in Chula Vista, southern California. One of three Olympic training centres in America – the others are the US Olympic Committee (USOC) headquarters in Colorado Springs and the winter sports facility at Lake Placid, New York – Chula Vista was opened in 1995, spreads over 155 acres and is the USOC's only year-round multi-training facility. The centre can accommodate up to 130 athletes, who can live and train there for anything from a few days to a year. There are training facilities for all sports, but particular emphasis is placed on rowing, archery, football, and jumping and vaulting. The centre also has a BMX course – the sport is making its first appearance at the Olympics – built to the exact specifications of the course in Beijing.
It would be hard to imagine a more idyllic setting; trees and blue hills in whichever direction you looked, the athletes' accommodation more luxury spa than bootcamp. Beside the tennis courts was an 'inspirational' wall; where athletes had scrawled suitably gung-ho exhortations: SUCCESS IS NOT A SOMETIME THING - IT'S A ALLTIME THING; and IT'S NOT EVERY FOUR YEARS. IT'S EVERY DAY.
America has one of the least centralised sporting systems in the world, and is one of the few countries where athletes – and the national Olympic organisation – receive no government support or subsidy. The USOC relies entirely on corporate support and sponsorship; and athletes are dependent on a mixture of USOC or federations grants, and commercial deals and appearance fees. It is a system that Conway Hill, of the American athletics website hellenicathletes.com, describes as 'pretty much every man for himself'.
'We have a huge participation in track and field at high-school level – as good as anywhere in the world,' Hill says. 'Then we move on to our collegiate system, where again the facilities and support are the best. But the big jump comes when you leave college. Then you either get a big shoe contract to carry you through, or you really struggle.'
Thus, while star athletes such as the sprinters Tyson Gay and Jeremy Wariner might earn $2 million a year – about the average wage for a professional football or basketball player – a 'journeyman' Olympic athlete might earn as little as $100,000, and have to pay a coach out of that.
As Tracy Lamb, the director of the Chula Vista centre, put it, 'We have a responsibility to our government, but no government funding.'
For Lamb, himself a former athlete who competed in the biathlon in the 1988 Winter Games, the Olympics is 'the greatest peace movement in the world', in which every country has the opportunity to participate – and where America in particular can demonstrate 'who and what we really are. And I don't think we're all about looking for oil, or looking to be a superpower. We're about fair play, good competition and friendship.' (It is in this spirit, Lamb said, that the centre accepts athletes from all over the world. Among the foreign athletes training there when I visited was the Chinese Olympic pole vaulter Gao Shuying, whose fees were being paid by the Chinese government. The training for her particular discipline
was better in America than China, Gao told me.)
I wondered whether the enormous symbolic importance of these Games to China and its growing challenge to America's medal supremacy brought a certain edge to these Olympics as far as America was concerned. Lamb smiled. 'We have a saying: we don't care who owns the podium as long as we're standing on it.'
So for China to overhaul America's medal count would be a crushing blow?
'For some people.'
And didn't that include the USOC and the American people?
'Well, the reason I say for some people, is because for me it's still about the journey. You can't control results. Medals are won by only one per cent of the athletes at the Olympic Games. Only one per cent. The other people have participated in one of the most prestigious sporting events of mankind – isn't that a neat thing, 99 per cent? So, I'm sorry, you're talking to the wrong American if you want somebody to say, "If we don't win the medal count I'm disappointed in my country, and my athletes have let us down." People who say that don't understand that certain countries are spending millions and millions of dollars more than we are. We struggle to fund what we do, we struggle.'
Many people, I suggested, would find it astonishing that the most powerful nation in the world should be 'struggling'.
'Me too,' Lamb said with a shrug.
The USOC has loyal sponsorship from many corporations and individuals, he said, but generating new revenue 'is getting harder and harder'. The 2008 US Olympic team lists 85 official partners, sponsors, suppliers and licensees. These include the 12 members of the IOC's 'Top Partners' global sponsorship programme, including Coca-Cola, General Electric, McDonald's, Panasonic and Visa, whose funding of both the winter and summer games is channelled through the IOC. Of this, 50 per cent goes to the cities hosting the Olympics – in this case Beijing and Turin, which hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics. Of the remaining 50 per cent, 20 per cent goes to the USOC, 20 per cent is divided among other national Olympic committees and 10 per cent goes to the IOC.
In terms of corporate sponsorship, the Beijing Games promise to be most lucrative since the IOC stamped the five Olympic rings as a brand logo in 1984, selling companies the right to use the logo globally. The IOC has raked in some $866 million in funding and product provision for Beijing and Turin, and $2.5 million in broadcasting revenue. (NBC alone has paid $893 million for the US television rights for Beijing.)
In addition, 'local' sponsorship will net the Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) a further $1 billion plus. For many companies the Games offer an unparalleled opportunity to gain a foothold in China's booming economic marketplace. The American package delivery company UPS, for example, is paying an estimated $30 million to BOCOG for China-only sponsorship as the Games' 'official cargo and logistics supplier' – no doubt with an eye towards the eventual deregulation of China's postal system: at present only the state-owned China Post can deliver letters and documents domestically.
But while corporate America might see the Olympics as a valuable marketing tool, and China as a potent symbol of its emergence on to the world stage, it seems that for many Americans it is an occasion of massive indifference. Sports coverage on American television is dominated by the 'big three' of football, baseball and basketball; track and field barely registers at all, other than at Olympics time, or when an athlete is embroiled in a high-profile scandal, like the case of Marion Jones, who last year was stripped of the five gold medals she won at Sydney in 2000 and sentenced to six months' imprisonment after admitting she had lied to a US District Court about taking performance-enhancing steroids.
For Tracy Lamb this presents a two-fold problem. 'My biggest cry is, I need to get more kids to try Olympic sports,' he said. 'I need to get more kids to understand there's more out there than football and basketball, and if they're not going to make the NFL or the NBA or the major league baseball, that there's other things they can do. And we need to get kids away from their computer screens and to get obesity down.
'What would hurt me if we're not successful at Beijing is the fact that it would probably affect our funding. Because that money will get tighter and tighter and we'll have to make tougher decisions about what we do with it: do we help one athlete that might get an Olympic gold, or do we try to reach out to 20 kids just to hopefully let them get up and away from the couch.'
What he wanted to inspire, Lamb said, was not the false lustre of riches, but the enduring reward of victory. 'The people that have this altruistic dream of Olympic success, who want to see their flag flying and hear their national anthem – that's a powerful thing to feel in your heart, and to have that drive is what makes them successful. So how do you term success? Is it how many zeros come after you sign that big contract? Or is it the fact that one day you're going to be able to see that flag of yours raised and hear that national anthem as you're standing on that podium?'
No matter how impressive an athlete's overall track record may be, qualification for the US Olympic team depends entirely on their performance in the Olympic trials, which this year were to be held in Eugene, Oregon.
Toby Stevenson, the Olympic pole-vaulter, was in the midst of his preparations for the trials. He was tall, tanned and laconic, and we sat on a bench beside the running track at Chula Vista, the warmth of the California sun on our backs.
In many ways, Stevenson's career could be seen as the archetype for the American Olympic athlete. As a student at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas, he set 24 high-school records, and was ranked the best 18-year-old pole-vaulter in the world. As a student at Stanford University, where he went on a sports scholarship, he tried, and failed, to make the US Olympic team for Sydney 2000. He became an assistant track and field coach at the university. But, refusing to let go of his dream of Olympic gold, he gave that up to become a full-time athlete. In 2004 he won the silver medal for pole vault in Athens – beaten into second place by his compatriot Timothy Mack.
For the past two years Stevenson had been living at Chula Vista, preparing for Beijing. Accommodation and food was provided for nothing, along with some medical care. He was presently in negotiations with his long-term sponsor, Nike; but for the most part his income was dependent on appearance fees and prize money. 'If you jump well and win the right meets, you can make up to
$100,000 in a season. That's without sponsorship. But if all I have to do is win the world championships to make $60,000…' He gave an ironic laugh. 'Oh yeah, that's easy.'
But money, he said, wasn't the point of it. The Olympics were 'the Games of dreams'. He paused. 'Holding your hand over your heart, hearing your national anthem play, after spending a lifetime working, sweating and training for one moment… as an athlete that's the ultimate. As an American, there are tons of football players, baseball players, but in any Olympic Games there are only a few gold medallists, silver medallists, bronze medallists. I have a silver medal, and I'm in a very small fraternity in this world. There are over 330 million people in the United States, and only 500 Olympians – that's a pretty cool group to be in.'
We talked about the forthcoming Games, and the controversy that enshrouded them over China's human rights record. Stevenson pulled a face. It was not something he wanted to talk about.
'It just saddens me that the Olympic Games have become so political now. Because the way they started was a peace movement. All the issues they're talking about are very important, of course, but this is a time for the world to come together.'
One of the things they discussed in training, he said, was 'don't sweat the small stuff'. Worrying about 'nationalistic stuff' was just a distraction.
'The US Olympic Committee might say China presents a huge threat to our medal count, but on a micro, individual level that's not really a factor. And to be frank, in the events we're training for here – javelin and men's pole vault – China's not really a player. It's not in the back of our minds that we must beat the Chinese; it's like, we have to beat the Germans and the Australians.
'But do we want to beat China in the medal count? Of course. Do we want to beat Germany in the medal count? Of course. As the leader in the medal count, we set the standard.'
It was time for Stevenson to get back to training. I asked him the same question I had asked everybody on my journey: what does America mean to you?
He gave the question a moment's thought. 'To me, the word that comes to mind is "grand", in size and stature. This is almost too strong a word, but I want to say "Saviour". I'm a Christian and we are by no means close to the Saviour that I believe in. But I think we're a country that wants to help. We're the melting pot, but there's a naivety there in that the majority of Americans don't know about other cultures. So sometimes we want to help and it doesn't always work out. But we're a very powerful country, and people need us. This is the greatest country in the world.'
I liked Toby Stevenson. He was smart, personable and – in a word so beloved of Americans – wholesome. I liked his determination, his idealism and his optimism. In many ways he seemed to represent the very best of America – the America that for all its failings and difficulties I have come to admire and respect.
A cool breeze had risen up. Stevenson rose, shook hands and strolled across the running track towards the jump zone, with only one thought in his mind. A few weeks later he competed in the Olympic track and field trials. He failed to qualify.


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The New York Jets have an identity, and they're sticking to it. Sunday's 35-9 demolition of the Indianapolis Colts only further proved that.
Part of that identity means it really doesn't matter who's under center.
Not Mark Sanchez, who entered Sunday's game with one of the worst starts to an NFL season in history from an accuracy standpoint, but played the role of game manager well against the Colts. Not Tim Tebow, who many fans never want to hear from again, while others think he's Pro-Bowl worthy. Not even Greg McElroy.
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I suppose you can say that was evidenced Sunday.
Shonn Greene entered full workhorse mode, carrying the ball 32 times for 161 yards and three touchdowns. As a team, the Jets ran the ball 44 times (to just 19 pass attempts) for 252 yards and three scores.
On the defensive side of the ball, New York held Andrew Luck to 50 percent passing, zero touchdowns and two interceptions—easily the worst game of his young career.
It's important not to overreact to this. The Colts were one of the worst teams against the run (4.7 yards per carry allowed) coming into the game. Luck, a rookie, was bound to have an ugly game at some point and the Jets got a needed boost from the home crowd.
Nonetheless, this goes to show you exactly how they're going to win games. With multiple key injuries on both sides of the ball, New York is going to have to slow the game down, bloody a few noses, win the possession battle and keep the game to a low-scoring battle.
They will do whatever limits the effect of the quarterback.
That means no Tim Tebow atop the depth chart.
As long as the running game is working like it was on Sunday, Rex Ryan and company will be willing to roll with the more experienced Sanchez—no matter how bad he's been—in a game manager role.
Moreover, the Jets are starting to carve out a role for Tebow that they are comfortable with. He's successfully converted two fake punts in a row, helps spring big runs by running the option, possesses an invigorating energy and brings along an important change of pace.
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