Word: failed
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Decker's Olympic epitaph is the saddest one, that she never had the chance to succeed or fail. Without challenge, almost invisibly, formidable Rumanian Maricica Puica finished the ill-starred race with her yellow hair flying. It was the Games' inaugural 3,000-meter run for women, another piece to the creeping acknowledgment of their athletic competence. Puica looked eminently competent, and not being able to see her hooked up with Decker in the stretch was a sore loss. In 1972 Decker was just starting out as little Mary, 14, not yet contrary, who ran so extremely hard...
...well as these kids did." The first Olympic basketball competition, in 1936, was played outdoors on sand and clay, and the final was held in a dribble-deadening rain. The game may have to be played that way again before the U.S.'s hard-charging knights fail to scale every summit...
...women's turn. But instead of protecting a lead, the U.S. team was chasing the Rumanians. With Comaneci in residence at the team quarters in the Olympic Village (and introduced each night to an ovation from the crowd), Rumania's women could never forget their legacy or fail to uphold it. Yet it was a burden they bore lightly. When one of the team's top performers, Lavinia Agache, 18, was asked if she wanted to be as good as Nadia, she replied, "Yes. I want to be better...
...fine. At 27, he had come to Los Angeles to cap his career, but his chances seemed fatally damaged when he fell from the pommel horse during the second day of competition and scored 9.45. But after that debacle he said, "I did not come here to fail." And so he did not. Gushiken is a gymnast of another generation, noted less for the daring supertrick than for the traditional virtues of technical mastery and elegant style. He relentlessly kept the pressure on Vidmar, racking up superior scores like a machine. In a total of 18 routines, he scored...
...least 7 million travelers participate in airline frequent-flyer programs in the hope of racking up enough mileage to earn free tickets to exotic locations. Yet roughly half of such customers fail to use the awards they receive. As a result, these coupons have become a hot new commodity, bought and sold by at least a dozen upstart brokers. The secondhand awards often present a sizable saving for the purchaser, even after the broker has taken a 20% to 40% commission. For instance, one broker was recently offering roundtrip, first-class tickets from New York City to Los Angeles, normally...