Word: olympicsized
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The dream follows magically, as dreams do. Says coach Don Laws: "For a girl, it's very often the vision of Dorothy Hamill. Her Olympic year was 1976, but they still idolize her. All the young ones see themselves going to the Olympics." So may their parents, but the financial...
So with these money trees to be shaken, why are major professionals like Boitano (gold medalist in 1984) and Britain's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean (also 1984 winners, in dance) returning to the upcoming Olympics? After all, their show-biz routines are smooth and easy, very scant on triple...
She wants gold at the Olympics and the rewards of fame. "To be perfectly honest," she said last week, "what I'm really thinking about is dollar signs." And so to the creed of the Games -- faster, higher, stronger -- she adds words she knows all too well. Harder. Longer. Badder...
On Saturday Sarah Bergman, 20, a friend and classmate of Eckardt's, told TIME another tale of Gillooly. A week before the tournament, she said, Eckardt told her that "Jeff wants me to do this for Tonya. Jeff wants me to set it up so that Tonya can win the...
But Anderson's optimism was not matched by the state of the art, and in 1981, discouraged by the lack of a reliable technique for inserting genes into the nuclei of mammalian cells, he temporarily abandoned gene therapy, turning to other research. As balm for his disappointment, he relentlessly practiced...