Word: olympicsized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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If there was a bittersweet feeling to Johnson's return last week, it came from the realization that his exile from the game had been largely unnecessary. When Magic announced to the world on Nov. 7, 1991, that he had contracted the AIDS virus, it seemed to many that he...
AS JOHN E. DU PONT AWAITED A PRETRIAL HEARING IN THE murder of Olympic wrestling champion Dave Schultz, Team Foxcatcher, the elite squad of wrestlers the millionaire supported on his Pennsylvania estate, had to balance their mourning with concerns about the future. Not only is Schultz, their friend and team...
Yet, the wrestling team that Dupont sponsored (Team Foxcatcher) continued to live at his estate and train for the Olympics. They obviously wanted to stay with DuPont in order to take advantage of his generosity, which included free use of his athletic facilities, free housing, even ample stipends. DuPont's...
That comes as a great relief to Paul Graves, a snowboarding pioneer from Redding, Vermont, who has been fighting an uphill fight for 32 years. "In the early days," says Graves, "back when we were riding these primitive things called snurfers, skiers looked on us as lepers. I remember being...
When the ghastly scene was discovered, the day before Christmas Eve, much of appalled Western Europe was compelled to ask--again--Why? The winter solstice ritual enacted about an hour's drive from the site of the glittering 1992 Winter Olympics reprised similar cult sacrifices that took place 14 months...