Hoff shows she has guts

You can easily measure the distance between gold and silver. In heartbreaking fashion, for Katie Hoff today, it amounted to just .07 of a second. What's harder to measure is the distance Hoff traveled just to get here, to go from lying on a pool deck to becoming a regular visitor to the Olympic medal podium. So everyone can fully appreciate what she's doing in China, let's go through this one last time. Feel free to cut this out. Carry it in your pocket, if you must. Hang it on your refrigerator, even. But this is going to be it: Four years ago in Athens, Katie Hoff's nerves were jangling like wind chimes in a hurricane. She got sick. Her breakfast made an unexpected encore appearance on the pool deck. Just 15 years old at the time, Hoff wilted under the enormous amount of Olympic pressure. It was caught on camera. It... [read full story]