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| | And the Queen of Gymnastics Is ... Lilia Podkopayeva! |
 | | And after her score of 9.887 -- the highest score of the night -- flashed on the screen, it was clear that only Mo, the Chinese star with the signature mole on her lip, had a chance to catch her. |
 | | She needed a 9.857 to win the gold outright, and by the time she stepped out of bounds on her final tumbling run, it was clear that she was not going to come close. |
 | | Shortly after the music stopped, Podkopayeva was locked in an embrace with her good friend Yelena Piskun, who now competes for Belarus and, like the 17-year-old Podkopayeva, is a former Soviet. |
| www.nytimes.com /specials/olympics/0726/oly-gym.html (1233 words) |
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