Word: diver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much importance is given to mere participation. Governments spend a great deal of money and effort for no purpose but showing up, for taking a place in a community of nations. Many African nations see the Games as a chance to become part of international sports. Carlos Giron, a diver from Mexico, views it wider: "You feel like a citizen of the world." Mohammed Abdel Meguid Mohyeldin, secretary-general of the Egyptian Olympic Committee, believes that "participation shows you are interested in humanity, not merely sports...
...swimming, Dan Watson '86 is close to making the team as a diver and Peter Egan '86, a buttefly specialist, is also expected to make the team...
...they did in Sarajevo last winter) to the G.D.R. Athletes are joining in the worn discussion of a permanent site in Greece, neglecting to consider who pays for pools and stadiums in use two weeks every four years. "Treat it like a sanctuary, as they did in Olympia," Diver Greg Louganis urges. "It was the Greek's form of worship. Why not bring it back as that?" But John Naber disagrees: "The Games are a social and cultural exchange, a big party. You don't want the party to be held in the same home every time...
...eighth-seeded Crimson combo of Susan Harris, senior Co-Captain Debbie Zimic, Tracy Black and Co-Captain Jeannie Floyd took sixth. In three-meter diving, Harvard's Jennifer Goldberg got second and Shannon Byrd snagged fourth. Byrd, who finished first in the one-meter, was named Eastern Outstanding Diver for accumulating the most points in diving competition...
...strangest lyrical effusions of the High Renaissance, a painting that almost (but not quite) ruptures its own decorum in the interests of poetry: the Virgin, momentarily out of her wits, cringes before the prospect of divine insemination, while God makes ready to descend from the sky like a high diver; the ethereal angel, pale blue and ivory, gestures threateningly; a tabby cat arches its back in terror, as well it might...