Word: looping
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...sprint relay - a new Olympic event - one skier does a 1.1-kilometre loop and then tags her partner, who skis the same loop. Each skier completes three legs. After finishing second in the semifinal to advance, Renner started the first leg of the final. The Canadian tandem led after each of the first two exchanges and Renner was in the midst of an uphill section on her second loop when the pole broke. "I don't even know what happened, I just know that all of a sudden I was kind of flapping with one arm," she said, laughing...
...lyrical chronicle of the ways in which “guilt [refines] the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime,” “Atonement” is a breathtaking and heartbreaking exploration of the nature and bounds of humanity...
...skeletons--Shapeshifter, 2000; Cetology, 2002; and Vienna, 2003--all made from white plastic stackable lawn chairs. Even close up they look like the extravaganzas of bone formation beloved of natural-history museums. But in each of the lawn-chair "skeletons," nature becomes culture becomes nature again in an endless loop. These sea shapes are made of plastic, a product derived from oil, which is itself derived from condensed, fossilized creatures. And history, natural and otherwise, is complicated. Whaling was once a staple occupation of the Pacific Coast native peoples, until blubber was overtaken as a source of fuel...
...Sports Illustrated http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2006/ No Olympic Games come without drama. With the Sports Illustrated website, you can get in the loop and stay on top of the latest Olympic developments. Everything from game scores to scandals included...
...feedback loop is dominated by fear?fear of failure, fear of disappointing teammates, fear of being unworthy?the circuit starts to resemble the classic fight-or-flight response. In the perform-or-perish version, anxious thoughts trigger the release of adrenaline, the hormone that sets the heart racing, primes the muscles to run and puts all the senses on alert. The eyes slip into tunnel vision?the last thing a quarter-back needs when he's relying on peripheral perception to spot a waiting receiver...