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...like a supernova and to have collapsed like a white dwarf, time enough for Britney Spears to have gone from an innocent grade schooler to a stripteasing teen queen, time enough for the rap-rock genre to have bulked up its market muscle like a steroid-popping Bulgarian weight lifter. Time has passed, but it hasn't passed Sade by. Even when she's singing sad songs, even when she's just stretching her voice, she sounds as alluring as ever: "I'm crying everyone's tears...
...like a supernova and to have collapsed like a white dwarf, time enough for Britney Spears to have gone from an innocent grade schooler to a stripteasing teen queen, time enough for the rap-rock genre to have bulked up its market muscle like a steroid-popping Bulgarian weight lifter. Time has passed, but it hasn't passed Sade by. Even when she's singing sad songs, even when she's just stretching her voice, she sounds as alluring as ever: "I'm crying everyone's tears...
Tiny Tara Nott became the first U.S. athlete in 40 years, as the women's version of the sport debuted in Sydney, to win an Olympic gold medal in weight lifting. Nott's achievement came at the expense of Bulgarian lifter Izabela Dragneva, who initially won the gold but was disqualified after failing a doping test. Thus Nott, 28, who had won the silver with a total lift of 407 3/4 lbs. in the 106-lb. weight class, became the Olympic champion...
Nott, who at 5 ft. 1 in. and 105 lbs. looks like a pixie gymnast, claims she was not interested in competing as a weight lifter. She got hooked when she won nationals a mere eight months after her introduction to barbells. "It just came naturally to me," she says. The obvious question for her: What sport doesn...
...could hardly be called glamorous. Svelte swimming star Inge DeBruijn is not going to try it. Some of the women - notably the Russians - make a valiant effort at catching the eye of, say, Nike marketing execs, with upswept hair, lipstick and mascara. One Argentinean lifter even had a tiny diamond in her nose. And some of them really are babes. Huge babes. (OK, I saw a couple of hairy armpits, but no moustaches.) But it's to no avail. The beauty is in the raw power. (See TIME's upcoming Notebook section for another reason why makeup on these ladies...