Word: legging
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...pressure of expectation, however, was too much for Janica, who was widely tipped to win gold at the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton. She fell in the slalom leg of the combined and finished fifth in the slalom event. The overwhelming disappointment affected her so badly that her father and coach, Ante, told the Croatian newspaper, Vjesnik, "She's quitting at the end of the season...
...stuff is strictly New World. A course, a clock and a mountain are challenge enough. The Austrians have owned Alpine skiing lately, but the men's team has been devastated by injuries, most significantly to Hermann (the Herminator) Maier, a double gold- medal winner at Nagano who shattered his leg in a motorcycle accident last summer. Five other top Austrians are also on the shelf. Yet Austria is so deep it can easily claim gold through Stephan Eberharter, currently the No. 1 ranked skier on tour...
...Plushenko is just as accomplished but far less polished. His program music is usually a bewildering pastiche of movie sound tracks, and the choreography is just as disjointed, but he never fails to impress with his Bielmann spin. He is the only male to lasso one leg up and behind his head and hold this position during a spin...
...fighting with the Taliban for weeks, until U.S. bombs forced him and many Taliban to surrender. He eventually wound up at the Qala-i-Jangi prison compound, where CIA officer Johnny Spann tried to get him to talk; shortly afterward, prisoners rioted, killing Spann. Lindh was shot in the leg during the melee, but whether he was involved in the uprising is unclear...
Ernest Hemingway, in his celebrated short story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," describes the last few hours of a man's life as he lies, stricken by a gangrenous leg, at the foot of Africa's highest mountain. "There, ahead, all he could see, as wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun, was the top of Kilimanjaro...