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The first medals of the Sydney Olympics were handed out...The first gold medal was won by a relatively unknown American... But it's swimming that is attracting the most attention right now. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

NPR'S Howard Berkes explores Australia's passion for swimming. In the first day of Olympic swimming competition, five world records fell. Australian talent Ian Thorpe thundered through the water with victories in single and relay events, stirring hopes that the Australians can replace America as the sport's dominant team.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that US officials say a single Iraqi MIG-25 penetrated Saudi Arabian airspace on Labor Day, the first such incident since the Persian Gulf War. Officials say the incursion took place when several Iraqi warplanes flew into the "no-fly zone" in southern Iraq, a region the US has declared off limits to Iraqi overflights. According to one official, the US chose NOT to retaliate because the administration at the time did not consider the single Iraqi plane to be a threat. The US also suspected Iraq of trying to provoke a confrontation just before the UN millennium summit. Since the December 1998 bombing of Iraq, the administration has resisted engaging in military confrontations with Iraq.

Robert talks to Dan Carpenter, an Indianapolis Star op-ed columnist, about the demonstrations in support of fired Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight.

Scott speaks with the "Doyenne of Dirt," Ketzel Levine, about her new book: Plant This, published by Sasquatch Books.

Bellamy Pailthorp of member station KPLU in Seattle has a profile of 16 year old jazz piano prodigy Aaron Parks.

Participants of a strange competition called the Eco-Challenge were exposed to leptospirosis, a rare bacterial illness. Scott speaks with Trisha Middleton is with Eco-Challenge Productions, which organized the event in Borneo.

Scott gets a voice lesson from the Miamians Men's Chorus voice coach Gene Cokeroft.

Scott talks to Detroil blues singer Alberta Adams who recorded her first album at the age of 77.

NPR's senior news analyst Daniel Schorr review the week's news.