Word: championed
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...story?boy wins Olympic gold medal, boy is dizzied by newfound fame, boy crashes out of competition. China's champion hurdler LIU XIANG seemed to be following that trajectory after his golden turn in Athens, where he tied the world record in the 110-m hurdles. The onslaught of patriotic obligations and commercial contracts overwhelmed the laid-back Shanghai native. Even as his visage was plastered on billboards nationwide, Liu lost his athletic focus, spending less time in training and consequently injuring his knee. Nevertheless, by the summer, Liu's off-track burden had eased, and in August...
Around the rest of the Ivy League on the opening weekend, Cornell defeated Columbia 1-0, Dartmouth handed Brown a 1-0 defeat, and defending Ivy champion Princeton fell to No. 24 Yale...
...match was one-sided and rather unremarkable, even for a title fights in professional boxing. Round after round, two pugilists charged to the center of the squared circle and threw leather at each other with calculated violence. Jesus Chavez, 32, a boxer who had been a world champion a weight class lower, was trying to capture the IBF Lightweight Championship belt from hard-punching Leavander Johnson, 35, a tough-talking fighter from Atlantic City. Instead, Johnson would lose his belt, and on Thursday, five days after the fight, he'd lose his life because of injuries suffered in the ring...
...Doctors were performing emergency surgery as the post-fight press conference commenced at the MGM Grand. Newly crowned champion Chavez approached the microphone and rather than boasting of his victory, he spoke in a somber tone and expressed genuine concern for his opponent. "I just want to say that my thoughts and prayers are with Leavander and his family," Chavez said. "He could use all of our prayers right now." But no prayers were answered, Johnson remained in a medically-induced coma for five days and was pronounced dead Thursday at 4:23 p.m. Mountain time...
...silver lining for the Crimson is that the impressive strength of the Ivy League schedule means that the Ivy League champion is often not the only conference team to participate in the Tournament. Last year, Princeton was joined by at-large bids Yale and Harvard in the postseason...