Word: olympian
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...Harvard’s bureaucratic mire, lesser administrators tend to get bulldozed by their Olympian overlords, to their students’ detriment. Harvard University has enjoyed a long, symbiotic romance with its incidental undergraduate component, Harvard College. But there’s no question that the manure only ever flows downhill. Or, in Harvard’s case, down the stairs from the third floor of University Hall—home to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), of which the College is a formal subsidiary—to the Harvard College Dean’s Office...
...With her wins at both indoor and outdoor Heps, the Texas native moved into impressive company. Dora Gyorffy ’01 and Kart Siilats ’02 were the last Crimson high jumpers to accomplish the feat and the former went on to be an Olympian. Christensen hopes to join Gyorrfy in representing her country on the global stage, traveling to Eugene, Ore. for the USATF qualifying trials at the end of June. At the indoor NCAA Championships earlier this year, Christensen matched her personal-best 1.83 meter clearance in dramatic fashion. Despite having trouble with the clearance...
...early returns suggest that America's best are unlikely to heed the protesters' calls. At the U.S. Olympic Committee's biennial pre-Games media summit in April, swimmer Michael Phelps, Team USA's most visible and celebrated Olympian, was asked if he felt any responsibility to speak out against injustice. He answered with a rambling evasion. Others offered direct, though disappointing, replies. "That's a lot of responsibility, to ask an athlete to not only represent your country and perform and try to win a gold meal, and to have a political view," said U.S. women's soccer star Abby...
...millions in potential endorsement dollars - and heading back to that job at Home Depot. Every distraction makes a difference; they can't afford to muddle their minds. "The athletes are doing the right thing, as far as focusing on sport," says USA Gymnastics executive Ron Galimore, a 1980 Olympian. "They have a small window. It's not that they don't care. It just takes so much focus, so much energy to make an Olympic Games. Their heads are in the right place...
...jumping athletes who had podium-placed at the indoor NCAA Championships last month. Christensen placed fourth at that meet.Now the junior joins an elite group of Crimson female athletes to claim victory at the Penn Relays, an event that boasts some of the strongest talent Harvard faces all year. Olympian Brenda Taylor ’01 and two-time high jump champion Dora Gyorffy ’01 are the only other Crimson women with a Penn Relay title.Christensen was one of only three athletes who cleared 179 cm at the Penn Relays this past weekend, earning victory by clearing...