Word: aerials
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...little over a week ago was the 17th annual Cultural Rhythms festival hosted by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, and once again it was an incredible show. From the aerial acrobatics of the first group, Bhangra, to the class-pride of the last group, the ’05 Steppers, the performances were all of high quality. As this year’s host, Blair Underwood, said, “This is simply stunning. I’ve seen some people in Hollywood who you look at and say, ‘How did they get into...
...weather was right - no snow and not much wind - and so freestyle aerial skier Ales Valenta of the Czech Republic decided to try a quintuple twist with a triple back-flip. No one had ever attempted?much less landed?a five twist jump in the Olympics. For Valenta it was a maneuver he had completed perfectly only twice in practice. But he was trailing defending Olympic champion Eric Bergoust of the U.S. and three others after the first round of jumps. Valenta needed something spectacular to win. Indeed, the five-twist jump he executed was spectacular. Also decisive. He took...
...officer investigated a small plane circling Harvard Yard and discovered that the pilot was authorized to take aerial photographs of the area...
Miller is the triple-threat leader of a U.S. ski team that is crucial to the U.S. Olympic Committee's goal of winning a record 20 medals in these Games. (The tally from Nagano in 1998: 13.) In freestyle skiing's mogul and aerial events--bumps and jumps--wild man Jonny Moseley and the meticulous Eric Bergoust will be defending their respective titles. The mogul team is impressively deep. The women's bumpers, led by Hannah Hardaway and Shannon Bahrke, could sweep, or be swept, in an amazingly talented field led by Norway's Kari Traa. Overall, nothing less than...
Bergoust, a.k.a. Air Bergy, the defending gold medalist in aerial skiing, sees these Games as a huge opportunity for his sport to "transcend skiing." Says he: "An aerials event in sunny blue sky is the most beautiful thing." Aerials tickets sold out before the downhill tickets, and competition will take place in front of some 13,000 fans in a festive atmosphere at Deer Valley...