Bengaluru, July 30 -- The story goes that during the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, a man from Nauru called home from the host city, describing every lift as it happened. Back on the tiny Pacific island, people gathered around the line, listening intently. Nauru had neither television nor widespread radio coverage, so the crackling voice from New Zealand was the nation's only window into the competition. At the centre of it all was 20-year-old weightlifter Marcus Stephen, the country's lone representative at the Games. He competed in three events and returned with medals in each of them - one gold (60 kg snatch) and two silver (60 kg clean & jerk, 60 kg combined), and a public holiday was declared on his arrival. Between 1990 and the ...