It's very unusual for someone to move up that quickly. It takes two to three, maybe four to five years usually for someone to move up. But there are a few gifted ones.

It's going to be basically the last man standing. It's going to be really hard.

At that level it's like a chess match on a bike. You've got to learn all the strategies.

The father and Ms. Ventura has indicated no one else know about it, so the pressure on that young girl had to be immeasurable.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

This was amazing! This was more than I ever imagined the Opening Ceremonies to be. It's greater than portrayed on television.