Word: medals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finishing anywhere but first would have been a disappointment for sprinter Bonnie Blair, who captivated audiences in 1988 with her killer starts and unabashed tears of joy on the medal stand after her 500-m victory. After that she struggled and ranked only fifth overall at last year's world championships. "I just didn't feel comfortable on my skates," Blair said. By Albertville, she had regained form and confidence, though, and seemed once again invulnerable...
...silver was the first winter medal for her country, and she had another chance for gold in the 1,000. As did Blair, who treated the intervening 1,500- m race as training, easing up for the last 400 m. In that race, German Jacqueline Boerner edged teammate Niemann for the gold, completing a comeback almost as dramatic as Ye's. While training on her bike outside Berlin in August 1990, Boerner was struck -- deliberately, she claims -- by a driver behind the wheel of a Trabant, the flimsiest vehicle on four wheels. "If it had been a real...
...during the lane changeover, Ye surged toward the finish line and vindication. When she lifted her head to the scoreboard, the Chinese skater had certainly achieved that. But by the incomprehensibly slim margin of .02 sec., less than the blink of an eye, Blair had won a second gold medal, making her the first American woman to take home three gold medals from the Winter Games...
...call for national health care is almost always followed by an emotional talk about his service in Vietnam--where he lost a leg and won a Congressional Medal of Honor...
Apparently, little changed in Kahn's view of the Games between 1976 and 1984, and the one outstanding characteristic of his writing is its appreciation of equity. Kahn has little use for the all-star, the quadruple-gold medal winner. He even seems to possess a desperate hope that, somehow, the Games will actually be a fair, level playing ground devoid of the big kid on the block. It is this spirit that motivates his wonderful encapsulation of 1984's Olympic king, Peter Ueberroth...