Word: elmizadeh
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That description fits women like the blond girl with polio who drags her crippled legs up to the table and competes in the only sport she can. And it fits men like Joe Elmizadeh, 36, an Iranian immigrant, who was a long-jump champ in the 1974 Asian Games. Now Joe is a garage mechanic who beat all his cohorts in matches at the shop, which is why they have dragged him to today's event, his first. "He's got himself in a fix today," says his wife Adrienne...
...they can go outside to watch the "Teenie Weenie Bikini" contest by the pool. Someone in the audience yells, "No!" Someone else yells, "Lock up!" A third: "Pull! Pull!" Now everyone is chanting, "Pull! Pull! Pull!" Keith smiles, shrugs and calls two competitors onstage, Ray Taglione and Joe Elmizadeh...
...blessing, the skinny referee cups both his hands over the two arm wrestlers' locked hands. "Ready!" he says. Ray and Joe tense up. "Go!" the referee says. The audience erupts into shouts and cheers -- "Pull him! Pull him! Slam him! Slam him!" -- as Ray Taglione, a stockbroker, and Joe Elmizadeh, a garage mechanic, pour every bit of strength in their bodies into their clasped hands...
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