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Time in that sense is the referee at every Olympic event, the ghost in the machine, as fickle a third party as in the Shakespeare sonnets. Biathletes begin their runs, like every amateur timing himself at home, the minute the second hand hits 00:00, and pay for missing shots with penitential 30-second loops; hockey players serve sentences for penalties that seem to last for years. Of course, this is true in every sport, or every life that knows a slip, a birth, a marriage, but in the Olympics an athlete comes into the spotlight for a second...
Television stations were tuned into the debate in many downtown Manchester restaurants Sunday night, as watchers cheered their candidates on. At the Salty Dog Restaurant, located blocks away from several of the candidates' headquarters, campaign workers and amateur political commentators gathered to discuss the future of the 1992 democratic ticket...
Even so, these books address major concerns and trace them over long periods, and thus warrant the attention of the interested specialist and the passionate amateur alike...
Foster, an amateur kickboxer, obliginglypummeled her past self after requests from St.Clair and Calflin...
Take figure skating. It used to be an arcane discipline that grew out of skating on frozen ponds and swamps, where the ice was black and people could trace their names -- or grapevines or Maltese crosses -- on a winter evening. Those innocent exercises gradually evolved into amateur competitions in which painfully exacting school figures counted for much of a skater's score, the rest being determined by the more spectacular free skating...