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John Bachar, 26, is a Yosemite climber who has pushed strength and skill to a level that astonishes even other good rock apes. Equipped with nothing but boots and gymnast's chalk, and unbelayed by safety ropes, Bachar flows up pitches graded 5.8 or better. Gym workouts have given him steely arm and finger strength, but superb technique and unshakable concentration are his most powerful adhesives. He may work out a sequence of ten or so moves to take him up an overhang hundreds of feet in the air, then discover that the route cannot be forced any farther...
There is scarcely a discernible connection between the improvisers' tales. Usually after a bout of vicious lovemaking, each bard tells a snippet of a story. A Russian seduces a teen-age Polish gymnast on an ocean liner; an Armenian American on a pilgrimage to Soviet Armenia makes furious love with her guide. The lengthiest improvisation is narrated by the poet Surkov, who fancies he is Pushkin incarnate. After a jealous scene with Pushkin's wife, he retells the master's unfinished tale, Egyptian Nights, followed by a parodic string of bromides: "Her black eyes flashed...
...equipment is better," says Warmerdam, "but so are the athletes. It's a combination." Just as the pole vaulter himself is a combination: sprinter, weight lifter, gymnast. He is characteristically happy. "Because," says Warmerdam brightly, "it is just a fun thing...
Originally a dancer and gymnast the 5'I" girl arrived at Harvard with dreams of rowing crew but was rejected because of her diminutive 78-pound frame. She instead coaxed the women's novice boat, but found the mixture of "cheerleading, coaching and steering" not active enough." Also, she says, "It's very In limiting to have eight people facing you You're got to have a lot of confidence to get through that...
...women themselves choose their own uniforms. "I've never sen cheerleaders in anything but skirts," she says. "Besides, our uniforms are hardly what you'd call racy. It's nothing close to the Dallas Cowboy girls. Most of the women say cheerleading requires skill. and a few--like gymnast Goodall--participate seriously in other sports...