Yet few people have cast a larger shadow over the past two Summer Games than the unassuming man from West Des Moines by way of Beijing.
上文：LONDON — Liang Chow never made it to the Olympics as an athlete.
The promising Chinese gymnast was a little too young to make the team for Seoul in 1988. By the time 1992 Games in Barcelona arrived, he had injured his back, retired from competition and was living in Iowa City.
下文：Chow, 44, has coached America’s brightest women’s gymnastics stars in back-to-back Olympiads — sunny Shawn Johnson in 2008 and garrulous Gabby Douglas this year in London.
