Word: discuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pixie smile was fending off a barrage of questions as to whether her dramatically improved performances were drug enhanced. Smith flatly denied it and credited her wins to new training techniques, a low-fat diet and more rest. But the fact that Smith's husband and coach, Dutch discus champion Erik de Bruin, is under a four-year ban for doping, fueled speculation, even though Smith was tested at eight competitions this year, and swimming officials have also collected urine samples four times in unannounced visits. "It is very easy to point an accusing finger when you are not doing...
Nicholas N. Sweeney '92 did not qualify for the discus finals for his native Ireland; J. Adam Holland '94 took first in the B finals of the men's pairs sculls; Cecile U. Tucker '91 took second in the B final of the women's quad sculls; and Pingtjan Thum '00 did not qualify for the finals in several swimming events for Singapore
...ideal, and it became a full tapestry in the Tradition of the Games sequence. A Greek temple rose up from the field and was then shrouded in white to give it the effect of a magic lantern. Next, giant silhouettes of classical Greek athletes appeared--archers, wrestlers, javelin and discus throwers, runners--and the crowd gasped as one. It truly was a beautiful sequence, connecting the ancient with the present...
...jump. If Carl Lewis makes the team and Cuba's formidable Ivan Pedroso isn't recovered from a recent operation, the grand old man of American track can collect his fourth straight long-jump gold medal, which would tie him with Al Oerter, who had four straight in the discus...
...that shooting, fencing, swimming, horseback riding and running make up this unique event--which, like just about everything else in Atlanta, is a sellout. French nobleman Pierre de Coubertin, who revived the Olympics in 1896, designed the pentathlon as a Napoleonic, soldierly evocation of the ancient game (which included discus, javelin or spear throw, jumping, running and wrestling...