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It is a balmy fall day just a few weeks post-Beijing Olympics. Inside the historic Hilton Hotel on Chicago's Michigan Avenue, guests and fans are swirling in a frantic frenzy like worker bees preparing the hive for its queen.
Milling around the hallways are the biggest and best names of last summer's Olympic games: NBA'S Kobe Bryant, Jason Kidd and WBNA's Lisa Leslie; pitcher Jennie Finch; decathlete Bryan Clay; volleyball queens Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh; swimmers like Jason Lezak and Aaron Peirsol; tae kwon do's Steven Lopez and Mark Lopez; and the women's water polo team. The excess of athletic star power is the result of Oprah's season kickoff show at...
