Word: olympian
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...with the label executives at Warner Brothers Records, and his failed bid for release from his multi-album contract, are usually blamed for the precipitous drop in quality of his early nineties recordings. But the truth is, the Purple One just wasn’t destined to reclaim the Olympian heights he achieved on “Sign.” There have been some high points since then: “Diamonds and Pearls,” “The Love Symbol Album,” and his previous outing, “Musicology...
...iron supplements—to get the blood count up, of course—Morgan, Alstead’s favorite son, was vulnerable, restless, and down. He had been an endurance guy: a high school champion on the local cross-country scene, in sneakers and on skis. A Junior Olympian. An All-American.“I really believe that if Morgan wasn’t here playing baseball,” says Joe Walsh, his Harvard coach, “he’d be in Torino.” It was an awkward twist, this, his new fitness...
...back and found it within themselves to put everything they had out there.”Sifers has a bit of a history of scoring on big occasions for the Crimson. Her top-shelf strike in the NCAA Final against Minnesota last spring was a game-tying laser beam. OLYMPIAN SIGHTINGSHarvard’s three inactive Olympians—Julie Chu, Caitlin Cahow, and Sarah Vaillancourt—were all on hand at Bright Center yesterday to cheer on their teammates. The trio took the year off from school to participate in the Games in Turin, but were on campus...
...name” universities such as Princeton, Georgetown, and that other institution down in New Haven—the one with the bad football team.So why did Cheek get left outside the gates of the Ivory Tower? Isn’t an intriguing, sociable, and generous Olympian just the kind of student Byerly Hall looks for?For the purposes of analysis, let’s break down Cheek into three component parts: his fame and intrigue, his kindness and generosity, and his academic and extracurricular value to the Harvard community.When it comes to fame, the speedskater ranks among...
...There's frustration at being so tantalizingly close mixed with satisfaction they're exceeding expectations," says former Crazy Canuck Ken Read, a two-time Olympian and head of Alpine Canada. "If those fourths had been a medal, people would have been doing backflips. We wanted this team to gain the experience to position themselves for 2010. They're doing that...