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Four inches taller and 20 pounds heavier than Boulerice, Marques Redd appeared a daunting adversary. The two met in the arm-wrestling arena (a wooden picnic table on The Crimson’s roof) and immediately began criticizing the setup. “This table is at a weird angle!” “There’s too much sliding action.” Elevation, stress, anxiety—whatever the cause, Boulerice started to doubt his abilities. “I don’t even know how to arm-wrestle,” he whispered...
...foot above Smith. This didn’t appear to daunt her as she sassed her way to the table, eager to get her game on because she had a meeting to go to in half an hour. In less than two seconds Fayanju pounded Smith’s arm into the picnic table, almost shattering Smith’s ulna. For the second round they decided to use their left arms. Whispers of “she’s left-handed” came from Smith’s corner of optimistic friends, along with distracting flash photography...
Intent on avoiding a second defeat, Smith removed her sweatshirt. With more arm flexibility, Alyssa’s energy perked up. Suddenly she had stamina, and Redd had to pump his arm hard. Alas, not even her boost of energy could save her. Thirteen seconds later Redd had Smith pinned...
...demeanor at her arm-wrestling match hid her true nature as an intense overachiever with hardened priorities. In the months following her spelling victory in 1996, she was invited to appear on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” but had to pass: Middle school finals were the same week and she needed to study...
...don’t have any muscle,” Guey announced, as Smith’s fans encouraged her to put the past two matches behind her. Guey emanated moans and groans as Smith pushed Guey’s arm into the splintery table, symbolically asking Guey to spell “defeat.” Perhaps the spelling bee divined this outcome. “My winning word was vivisepulture,” Guey explains. “I studied, like, roots and stuff of different words. Vivi means alive and sepulture means buried. It means buried alive...