Word: championed
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...three 14-year-old prospects, "but for some time now our players have struggled to make the move from junior to senior ranks," he says. "It's hard to say whether that's the fault of the coaches or something else. I think to be a real champion it needs to come from within. You have to have that absolute conviction and desire...
...record, Agassi, though a humble champion, thought the theory was right. And the fact that four of his eight grand slam victories were Australian Open titles did nothing to undermine it. The first grand slam event of the year, the Australian Open poses a peculiar challenge to the players. Apart from a warm-up event or two, it's their first tournament for more than a month and follows a festive period often characterised by rest, (relative) overindulgence and an aversion to anything that reminds them of tennis. Thus, the Oz Open tends to favor two types of player...
...Marcus Taylor, who taught lead actor Corbin Bleu his rope-skipping skills for the film, says the same thing used to happen to him while he was growing up. "I got teased all the time when I was younger," says Taylor, 20, who went on to become a world champion rope jumper in 2004. Now when people poke fun at him, Taylor just takes out his rope and wows them with his gravity-defying jumps, flips and tricks. "I know that jump roping is so cool," he says, adding that most people realize the same thing after seeing what...
...their increasingly intricate steps and athletic stunts. "When you watch it, it's really something that is incredibly mind-boggling, and you can't quite picture how they do that," says Bleu, 17, who performed most of his own tricks for Jump In! Kelsy Moe, 22, became the female champion last year for moves such as the "double under frog" and "triple under," in which she performs handstands and jumps while twirling the rope around her body up to three times before her feet finally hit the ground. In addition to the Disney movie, which will air six times over...
...presidential candidates in 2007, you don't have to go to Iowa or New Hampshire. Just turn on C-SPAN. Nearly all of the major Oval Office contenders work in the same place, the United States Senate, where you can be sure they won't miss an opportunity to champion issues and establish themes they might...