Word: jumped
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While Lewis may try to exceed 29 ft., El Khouri hopes to reach 25 ft. "Lewis will be too tough in the 100 meters and the long jump," says Gus Young, a Jamaican who lives in The Bronx and runs for North Carolina State, "and he'll have to be kept jumping a while to lose the 200. But we can beat him and the U.S. in the relay." Gus sounds absolutely convinced...
...used in Spanish for James) shortly after he and his wife began a 25-year stint as social workers in predominantly Chicano East Los Angeles. James says that his intention was never to deceive but simply "to write about Mexicans from the inside. I wasn't trying to jump on the ethnic bandwagon." Besides, he liked being the impudent young Santiago who is "like me when I'm drunk." That said, he reports that Santiago is already busy at work on his second novel...
Whether dirt bike racing can make the jump to the big time depends on the success of the sport's latest gimmick--a compact version of motocross called "stadium supercross," which made its only New England appearance of the year Saturday night in Foxboro's Sullivan Stadium. Supercross is sealed down, off-road motocross in which racers compete on a half-mile man-made course. Unlike indoor soccer or box lacrosse, supercross is not significantly different from its bigger, outdoor brother. It also boasts a number of features that have promoters, sponsors and racers licking their lips in anticipation...
...fans come just to see the crashes, but the race there last weekend indicated that as accidents go, they are pretty tame. A motocross crash has none of the explosive finality of an Indy car slamming into the wall at 200 mph. A rider loses control in a jump, hits the ground off balance, falls off his bike, picks it up and starts going again. Crashes serve much more as opportunities for passing than for broken legs. One of the most exciting parts of Saturday's action was in the second-to-last race, when leader Scott Burnsworth fell...
...lost, as the bike is merely floating, not moving ahead. So drivers try to stay on the ground as much as possible. Promoters, though, try to play up the sport's dangerous in-the-air element. The most exciting part of this course was a large jump called the catapult; Diet Coke gives the driver who jumps the farthest a $1000 bonus. The fans love it, but it reinforces the idea that motocross is a show and not a sport...