Word: olympicsized
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Policies and power aside, the unerringly controversial and unconsidered commentary of our Democratic state Speaker reminds me a little too much of the antics of the Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Both men are more enamored of neat rhetoric than they are of reasoned statements or even...
Since setting that mark, no other female sprinter has come closer than 10.60. And at the Seoul Olympics, where she won three gold medals, she ran the 200 meter dash in 21.34 seconds, setting another seemingly unbreakable record. Only one other woman (Marion Jones at 21.62) has ever run 200...
But Flojo received as much attention for her fashion statements as for her athletic exploits. At the 1988 Olympic trials, she wore a purple body suit without a left pant leg. For the Olympics of that same year, she painted three of her fingernails red, white and blue, and a...
According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President telephoned her at about 6:30 a.m. on July 19, the day he was leaving for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and they had phone sex, after which the President exclaimed, "[G]ood morning!" and then said: "What a way to start a day...
Whether he would have won at the next Olympics, we'll never know. What we do know is that Towne, a man of ruefully romantic temperament, has found a soulmate in Steve Prefontaine. In an article he once wrote, Towne made an implicit analogy between writing and running. Both involve...