Olympics-It takes more than gold to make a hero (Reuters)

LONDON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - When fencer Ruben Limardo set offfor the London Olympics, he little imagined that he would becheered through the streets of the Venezuelan capital Caracas ontop of a truck on his return, and honoured by the president. Nor could Shin A-lam have known that a tearful, lonely hoursobbing over the loss of her bout would make her known tomillions and put fencing on the map in South Korea. ...