Word: gymnast
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...Sure enough, he also tutors abused poodles in ASL twice a week. Braced by years as Student Body President and Literary Magazine Editor and Volleyball Team Captain, Harvard students fling themselves exuberantly into scores of extracurricular pursuits. Even someone who used to be only an Olympic Gymnast frequently arrives and decides she should try her hand at leading sustainability fieldtrips for urban teenagers. Seldom does a student define herself by one organization alone. Appended to every Facebook profile is an elaborate series of acronyms that, put together, suggest that this really is somebody: HIR, HPT, IOP, PBHA...
...engage his opponent in a brawl, to bull Mayweather, who tends to sidestep his opponents with ghost-like body movements. De La Hoya, an angular man who stands two inches taller than Mayweather, wanted to get in close and use his power and size to overwhelm his opponent whose gymnast-like body is difficult...
...very sport-specific set of muscles, it is often the case that the most successful athletes are the ones who start at the youngest ages. This was precisely the obstacle that Anna Podolsky found herself facing four years ago at age 14. Podolsky was originally a gymnast, but multiple stress fractures derailed her career at a young age. After hearing about fencing from several fellow gymnasts, Podolsky decided to give it a shot. The three women have since been brought together by Brand’s recruiting and now find themselves a part of a closely knit team that they...
...coach said she was "just a little girl," but on July 23, 1996, at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, 4-ft. 9-in. gymnast Kerri Strug became a big hero. Despite a sprained ankle, she launched into one last vault and stuck her landing to win the U.S. women's gymnastics squad its first-ever team Olympic gold. A decade later, Strug, 28, thinks of that day "constantly," she says. "Atlanta changed my life." A Stanford grad, she works at the Justice Department in Washington, helping get federal funding for youth-oriented groups like Boys & Girls Clubs. She's still...
...sports as golf, boxing, football and horse racing. Among his most notable broadcasts: the first televised Masters tournament, in 1956; the matchup known as the greatest game in NFL history, the 1958 league championship between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts; and the perfect 10 scored by gymnast Nadia Comaneci at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal...