Word: duels
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When no. 1-ranked Valentina Vezzali faced off against No. 2 Giovanna Trillini in the women's individual foil final last week, they weren't merely dueling for gold. They were fighting for the title of top fencer in Jesi, the small Italian town where both grew up. And since Jesi has dominated the sport for more than a decade, being best in town right now means being best in the world. Before Athens, Trillini had won four Olympic golds (three team, one individual) and Vezzali had won three (two team, one individual). On the morning of their duel, held...
...members' knuckleball-like throwing knives, which dance and weave toward their targets. The pair concoct an elaborate plan to use a blind bar girl (Zhang Ziyi) as rebel bait, and Zhang, a trained ballerina, shows off her skills in a dance sequence that turns into an elegant, then vicious, duel. It is the visual highlight of a gorgeous film...
...Crimson’s two-game sweep of perennial Ivy power Princeton on April 10, she drove in three of Harvard’s five runs and scored the winning run in the bottom of the 20th inning in the now-classic duel between the two squads...
...Moscow, their hopes for love and life all the while fading to gray. Perhaps the most in need of medication is youngest sister Irina, who clocks up dismal hours in the local telegraph office and whose loveless engagement to an army lieutenant ends when he is killed in a duel. With her limpid eyes and languid limbs, Rose Byrne was born to play Irina - as she did in a shrill but memorable Sydney Theatre Company production in 2001. Like a sunflower starved of light, her wilting heroine had barely enough energy to proclaim, as Irina does, "We must work...
Still, the Crimson’s solid victory proved encouraging, especially after the draining, six-hour duel against the Bears...