'Elite Athletes': How the Best Beat the Rest

With "the Games of the XXIX Olympiad" (as Bob Costas would say) looming ever larger on the horizon, a new documentary, "Elite Athletes," provides a welcome measure of insight into what it takes to become the kind of athletic powerhouse soon to cavort 'neath Beijing's temporarily de-polluted skies. The documentary makes its premiere on Friday at 8 p.m. on the cable channel Treasure HD and over the Internet (on which much of the Olympics will be shown, so you may as well get used to... [read full story]