Word: goat
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...these aren't the Victorian Olympics. For the first time, women will compete in weight lifting and the pole vault, once thought of as two of the highest-testosterone events of the Summer Games. Poised to make Olympic history are two American women who came to their sports via goat roping and tree-house building. Since those events aren't yet sanctioned, lifter Cheryl Haworth and vaulter Stacy Dragila will have to settle for medals in what used to be exclusively male pursuits...
...While Haworth discovered weight lifting, Stacey Dragila was using coordination honed by years of goat roping at rodeos in a different contortion: pole vaulting. Dragila started experimenting with vaulting in the early 1990s after enjoying only modest success as a heptathlete. She is drawn to the daredevil aspect of the sport. "I think women have brought a lot of life back into the sport--first, because a lot of people doubted women could actually do it well. Two, part of it is that odd fascination some people have in watching athletes risk injury to win." Dragila, 29, is doing something...
...back streets of Abuja pulse with the sound of traditional Africa juju music, as well as reggae, and the air is spiced with the aroma of curries and goat's-head pepper soups. Unlike most capitals, the city - with a population of 400,000 - has little in the way of fancy restaurants outside of its two big hotels with those exotic-sounding names: Hilton and Sheraton. Like most major capitals, it has a flourishing red-light district...
...hefty $10,000 to take home party favors packed with Kenneth Cole watches and wallets and to rock with Melissa Etheridge. Her three-song set had actor Harry Hamlin and lip-luscious wife Lisa Rinna dancing in the grass while wine and rum flowed and trays of shrimp and goat cheese quesadillas circulated...
...Each side aims squintingly at the other and fires like Teddy Roosevelt trying to hit the wild white goat in western Montana at 300 yards. The trick is not to shoot ourselves in the collective foot...