Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carlo Fassi kept the uniforms of several nations on hand and changed colors midway through events. "I go like crazy," he explained. "I'm everywhere." Everywhere Fassi was last week, there seemed to be gold. In a sport where most coaches would be satisfied to guide just one competitor into the Olympics, the ubiquitous Fassi brought four skaters to the Winter Games and left with two gold-medal winners: America's Dorothy Hamill and Britain's John Curry. The double victory confirmed what many people in figure skating already knew: that Carlo Fassi, with his inexhaustible energy...
Canales swam a leisurely race (11:01) and then went out in the 200 free in Loughranesque style and blitzed his nearest competitor by a second and a half...
Right at the outset, a veteran charter fisherman, Nichol Dance (Warren Gates), threatens to kill his upstart competitor Tom Skelton (Peter Fonda). The remainder of 92 in the Shade is spent waiting for this inauspicious event to occur. Neither Dance nor Skelton pays any mind to fate or fortune, an attitude that makes for short suspense. This did not matter quite so much in Thomas McGuane's novel, which went heavy on atmosphere, but it pretty thoroughly confounds any movie adaptation, including, sad to say, the author...
Although the meet was divided into two parts--field events Friday at Briggs Cage and running events Saturday at Tufts' Dussault Cage--Harvard's trackmen painted the outcome Crimson after only one day's competition by taking a 58-16 lead Friday over nearest competitor Northeastern...
...surprisingly, the drill before a panel of judges can be excruciatingly tense. Take the demands of the paragraph loop, for instance. The maneuver begins with the competitor pushing off, moving backward on the outside edge of the right skate. In that position, moving slowly, the skater traces half a circle leading into a loop, gliding out to complete a full circle. He then changes to the inside blade edge and carves a second circle and loop...