Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after suffering shoulder and rib injuries but has yet to land a quad in competition; a pair of elegant young Russians, Ilia Kulik and Alexei Yagudin, exemplars of old-school, glamour-puss skating; and a sleeper. American Michael Weiss, 21, from Fairfax, Va., will hope that the big names crash and burn, and that he lands the viciously tough quad Lutz he two-footed while finishing second at the nationals last month...
...where I was going to hit, that the potential for me to blow out both my knees right now is pretty high, so I'd better just blow my left one out again. [The surgeon] can clean it up when he goes in there to fix it." The crash went according to plan; with an awful pop, Street tore the anterior cruciate ligament. The damage-control maneuver, she explains, was just like jumping off a big roof. "You wouldn't try to land on both feet, you'd kind of slide out of it." Of course. Just like jumping...
...item on their list of unfinished business. Street has lately zoomed close to her world-beating form, posting a fourth-place finish in a World Cup downhill at Cortina, Italy. But her comeback took a scary detour in a downhill last Saturday at Are, Sweden, when she crashed at about 75 m.p.h. and was knocked briefly unconscious. Afterward, coach Herwig Demschar proclaimed it "just a normal crash" and said the worst damage was to one of Street's favorite skis. Her father, Ron Street, predicted she would be fit for Nagano, despite a bad headache at the moment: "This will...
...options: 1) ascend a barren hillside and wait for the world and the millennium hype to end; 2) turn on a computer and watch its date-bollixed software seize up; 3) agree with the grumps who point out that since there was no year zero, the millennium will not crash down on our heads till 2001; or 4) agree with the Chinese, who point out that this year's date is 4635, so why worry...
...Diana Crash: The Investigation Could Diana have been saved, even after the crash? Could her chauffer have been stopped in the first place? A new book by TIME correspondents Thomas Sancton and Scott MacLeod tells the inside story of the Princess' last days. Full Story...