Word: neck
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...feel to win 122 gold, 78 silver, 93 bronze? How did it feel? Well, wearing all the medals at once was a bit hard on the neck, but otherwise it was awesome. I mean awesome! I was totally psyched! I figured to win the 200-m freestyle and the single scull. But who would have thought I'd also take the decathlon, the triathlon and the mathlon, not to mention the pommel horse, the high horse, the gift horse and the pole vault with horse? By the time I got to the 50,000-m, trans-Sydney long jump...
...debate where students from both parties said they were looking for one candidate to take the lead in an otherwise neck-and-neck race, many said no clear victor emerged...
...fate of the match hinged on Riddell's second-set tiebreaker against Smith. Both fought neck-and-neck but Smith edged Riddell, 7-5 in the breaker...
...have filmed a whole docudrama to tell the story of cyclist Armstrong, who came back from testicular cancer to win the Tour de France twice--only to be smacked down by a car on a lonely French road just weeks before these Olympics. He fractured a vertebra in his neck that day. "We were in the middle of nowhere," he said. "The next car to come by was my wife an hour and a half later." At least she didn't run him over...
Armstrong's cancer helped reshape his body and turn him into a much better cyclist. So would his neck injury spur him on for the Olympics? "The accident affected my training, but I'm fit enough," Armstrong said before the cycling time-trial race. "I don't want to use that as an excuse." And he didn't. Armstrong got the bronze in the trial, won by Russian Viacheslav Ekimov, who races with Armstrong on the U.S. Postal Team. It was a great race. But Armstrong's is such a rich, heartwarming tale that the race results seemed almost...