Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emphasize her injury and cloud Nunn's moment, Kersee started looking at her as more than just a sublime athlete. Since their marriage in 1986, she has overwhelmed the field with the only 7,000-point performances on record -- four of them. He says, "At times I feel she's possessed by athletics. She can go on and on." With a sigh she agrees, "I don't know what it is about that extra second or inch. I expect so much out of myself." She always aches but never minds. "Ask any athlete: we all hurt at all times...
...greatest athlete." To which Thorpe replied with touching simplicity, "Thanks, King." Thompson has often heard the description "world's greatest athlete" -- in fact, he has been called the greatest of all time -- but has never seriously proclaimed the title. "It's merely a tag," he says. He does feel akin to Thorpe though. "We're all his descendants -- Mathias, Rafer Johnson, Jenner, me. We've all shared something. It's passed down from one to the next. It's never anyone's property. It's only mine for the moment...
...historian at work on a biography of a brilliant, little-known woman painter named Lorin Jones, really have a problem? Polly's women friends don't think so. Most of them are solitaries of one sort or another, and they warmly support her isolation. She is well shed, they feel, of her first husband, a medical researcher who, a few years before, with typical male arrogance, left Manhattan for a job in Denver, forcing Polly to choose between marriage and her museum job. Her only difficulty, in this view, is that their delightful 13-year-old son, who lives with...
...race speed, is fast enough by several seconds to qualify for the U.S. Olympic swim team. A training performance of this kind is eerie. Later she is asked how she felt after this effort. "Really tired," she answers, looking drained. "I think you should be. If you don't feel tired, you weren't working enough...
Evans, who holds world records in the 400-meter, 800-meter and 1,500-meter freestyle, has a lot of natural talent. This means that she has "good feel for the water," her coach says; "the water doesn't slip off her hands." But what makes Evans a once-in-a-generation rarity is her astonishing endurance. It is hard to see where she gets all of this gristle. Swimmers tend to be sizable, but last year, when she began setting world records, she was only a smidge over 5 ft. tall, and would have had to bounce...