Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final Olympic performances of their careers. It had been a wild week of ski racing, and maybe it was those crazy ski suits that gave the first hint. Nobody had ever seen anything like them: weird spirals of glowing pink and black, or yellow and orange, snaking up each leg and across the bottom-astonishing, even in hindsight-and then up the trunk and down the arms. Even as the Mahres did their twin-brother act one more time, they seemed to symbolize a passing of the old order, in a mixed-up, wonderful two weeks of blizzards, postponements...
...years ago, Michela Figini of Switzerland, who won the gold in the downhill last week, was 13 years old. For Americans, nothing showed the passage of time more than the news that the stalwart Cindy Nelson, 28, competing in her third Olympics with a brace on her damaged right leg, had not even entered the punishing downhill. In the G.S. she had scraped to 18th place, and it seemed likely that her career was over...
...observer could doubt that the emotions they showed were real and strong, but the gurgling obscured the toughness of these athletes. Cooper's recovery from complicated leg surgery was well enough known, and Armstrong too, it turned out, had come back after harrowing crackups. She had broken her leg in practice at Schladming, Austria, two years ago, recovered fast enough to get onto the World Cup circuit the same season, and then broke the same leg again...
...part of the next season she competed wearing a specially built high ski boot to support the bad leg. Both her father, a psychologist, and her mother teach skiing part time, and she has always skied, but at Garfield High School in Seattle she was also an M.V.P. for two years in soccer and basketball. Her bubbly nature is infectious; Cooper said later, "I was behind her in the starting area, and I heard her saying to herself, 'O.K., Deb, just have a good time, have a good time, have the run of your life.' And then...
...some of Witt's knack of making the Axels and the Salchows look simple. She was the crowd's favorite, swirling and swooping through a move she has patented as the "Chin spin": stretching out to brush the ice with one hand while she whirls with one leg fully extended. After finishing second overall in the combined short and long programs, she is no longer a comer, but the star of a new generation...