Word: austria
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Immediately after the attacks, many sporting events across the globe were postponed. In the ensuing weeks, a slew of players - some members of Austria's soccer team and English cricketers Andrew Caddick and Robert Croft, to give but a few examples - pulled out of international commitments, citing safety concerns. Not that everybody was daunted. U.S. weight lifter Jackie Berube financed her own trip to compete in the World Weight-Lifting Championships in Turkey after the sport's governing body in the U.S. decided it was too dangerous. And 1,000 Irish fans went to Iran to see Ireland qualify...
DIED. REGINE CAVAGNOUD, 31, world champion high-speed skier; after colliding with a German coach while training on a glacier in Innsbruck, Austria. Cavagnoud won last year's super-G World Cup and was third in the World Cup overall. She was considered a top contender for France in the 2002 Winter Olympics...
...marred by a failed merger with U.S. Airways and labor troubles. Investors lost confidence when he suggested United might "perish" in the wake of Sept. 11. Goodwin has been replaced by John W. Creighton, former CEO of Weyerhaeuser. DIED. REGINE CAVAGNOUD, 31, world Super-G champion; in Innsbruck, Austria. The French skier died of injuries suffered when she collided with German national coach Markus Anwander during a downhill practice run (see Eulogy). DIED. GRIGORY CHUKHRAI, 80, celebrated Soviet-era filmmaker; in Moscow. A WW II veteran, his major films dealt with war, including Ballad of a Soldier, which...
...terrorist attack was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, which led to the dark day of Aug. 4, 1914, when German troops entered Belgium and started the first world...
Other speakers kicking off the walk were Swanee Hunt, former U.S. Ambassador to Austria, and Rina Amira, a doctoral student at Tufts University whose family had immigrated to the U.S. from Afghanistan...