Word: medals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...track in Winterberg, Germany, after he failed to hear the "all-clear" signal that indicated she had started her race. He, of course, will never be the same; perhaps neither will she. German and American lugers had another, even darker, intersection last October, when skinheads beat up medal hopeful Duncan Kennedy, who intervened in a barroom incident to protect teammate Robert Pipkins, a target because he is black. Athletes may appear to lead charmed lives, at least in triumph. But an athlete is always a citizen of the larger world, vulnerable to all its whims...
...mentally disturbed brother. Speed skater Kristen Talbot learned it when she risked her physical ability to compete by giving a bone-marrow transplant last Jan. 11 to her brother Jason, gravely ill with aplastic anemia. Luger Cammy Myler, already chagrined at the dislocated shoulder last September that dimmed her medal chances, felt her injury diminish in meaning when her brother and sporting mentor Tim was hospitalized for potentially fatal colon cancer...
...read the election returns, and Kerrigan, the goddess of good, already enjoys a significant edge over Harding, the consort of thugs. On the other hand, if Kerrigan falls and Harding triple-Axels her way to victory, then what crueler punishment could be devised than for Harding to lose her medal if she is eventually found guilty...
Harding is at the center of this are-you-ready-to-rumble transformation of the sport. "I've been skating 20 years for a gold medal," she told TIME last week. "And I'm not going to give up until I get one." Her lawyers plowed right into the legal obstacles that precede the Feb. 23 competition. Last week the U.S.O.C. called a hearing in Norway on Feb. 15 requiring Harding to respond to charges that she not only failed to live up to the Olympic code of conduct but participated in the crime or failed to report her knowledge...
...will walk away with the coveted gold medal? Oksana Baiul of the Ukraine? Surya of France? Or some other skater of similar ability? We must also acknowledge the possibility that the Clockemas County investigators might dig up enough evidence to indict Harding before she skates. The law could preclude her performance before she skates...