Word: jumped
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...runs before an anxious crowd of 52,000 onlookers at Canada Olympic Park, Matti "Nukes" produced nearly identical jumps of 294 ft. That gave him an astonishing 17-point margin over Ploc, who scored closer to the tenth-place jumper than he did to Nykanen. It confirmed the suspicion that % there are two classes of jumpers in the world today: Nykanen and everyone else. Said his coach, Matti Pulli: "He is the best jumper in the past 100 years, the best ever in the world." The coach then added matter-of-factly, "Matti was jumping normally today, nothing more than...
...herald the "new ball game" he had been predicting. But Gore wasn't smiling when he talked to Martin later. Richard Gephardt was scoring a solid second, undermining Gore's risky gambit of skirting the early contests. Instead of facing two liberal Yankees on Super Tuesday, Gore must now jump-start against a Border State moderate with Southern appeal. "Gephardt has an anti-foreign, anti- Establishment pitch -- a send-'em-a-message message," says Political Consultant Carter Eskew, a friend of Gore's. "That and the populism of resentment are likely to do well in a part of the country...
...addition to Rainey, other Harvard members achieved notable highlights. Sophomore Manda Schossberger took the triple jump with a distance of 36-ft., 5 3/4-in. Freshman Megan Young scored a second place finish in the high jump with a 5-ft., 4-in. mark...
...throw with a distance of 62-ft., 1-in. Freshman Nick Sweeney captured the shot put at 50-ft., 3-in. and placed second behind Russell in the 35-lb. throw with a throw that spanned 55-ft, 10-in. Senior Chris Sullivan nabbed second place in the high jump with a distance of 6-ft, 9 1/2-in. Rutledge Simmons qualified for the IC4A's in the triple jump, leaping a distance...
Then there is the curious case of the judges who do not really matter. In ski jumping, judges can award as many as 20 points for a perfect jump, watching out for such sins of style as bent knees, curved backs, unsteadiness and crossed skis. They also look askance at failure to land with one ski in front of the other, knees flexed, hips bent and arms straight out at the sides -- the so-called telemark position, named after a region in Norway where the sport originated. The final score on a jump is made up of distance plus style...