Word: olympicsã
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Once Gyorffy closes out her final academic semester—which she must complete after leaving Harvard last fall to compete in the Sydney Olympics??€”she will have the freedom to build experience in the major international meets. When she placed fifth at the IAAF Indoor World Championships at Lisbon in March at a peak height of 1.93 meters, she placed some of the blame on her failure to adapt to an unexpected ramp that interfered with her approach. At Edmonton, the IAAF reported that a strong headwind, which picked up as the bar was raised...
While an unabashedly capitalist institution such as my school might segregate foreigners through income, the Chinese government—the government that bats American spy planes out of the sky and would have blamed the entire West had Beijing lost the 2008 Olympics??€”does the same when it hires foreign teachers for its schools and maintains segregated prisons and dorms...