Article: Beyond medals: athletes in pursuit of the Olympic spirit; The essence of the Games may be captured in hard work, a willingness to forgo financial security, and team camaraderie.(USA)

Byline: Mark Sappenfield and Christa Case

ATHENS AND CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- If it were Einstein's theory of relativity or Newton's second law of motion, perhaps he could explain it fully. Indeed, just down the Charles River at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Steven Tucker was trained as a physicist.

But within the confines of force = mass x acceleration, there are no words to describe how it feels to accelerate - to lean into your oars and nod forward toward the finish line. In the breadth of science, there are no formulas to explain why a physicist in his mid-30s would put aside a promising career to rise with the sun six days a week to ...

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