Word: racer
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...Walkers can blame the rules, which require that one foot touch the ground at all times and, from the time the lead foot hits the ground, the lead leg be fully straight. Sounds simple, but try doing it for the nearly four hours that it takes a world-class racer to cover the 50 km (nearly 8 km more than a marathon). "Now I realize it looks strange," Korzeniowski says during a coffee break in his Tourcoing apartment. He didn't as a teen. The sport was popular in the part of southeast Poland where he grew...
...years older than the next oldest racer (event favorite Petria Thomas), but there's nothing old-fashioned about her training. "For months now," she says, "I've been learning as much as I can about swimming and swimming fast." No matter the evidence to the contrary, her old ways of stroking were flawed, she says...
There is little substance in Hidalgo. Ostensibly, the film is based on the true story of Frank Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen), a long-distance horse-racer who is invited to partake in “the Ocean of Fire,” a 3,000-mile horse race across the Arabian Peninsula. Hopkins’ horse, Hidalgo, is a mustang, a wild mixed-breed horse that was introduced to the Americas with the arrival of the Spaniards to the New World. In the world of horse racing these mixed-breeds are considered, according to the movie, unworthy to share the road...
There is little substance in Hidalgo. Ostensibly, the film is based on the true story of Frank Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen), a long-distance horse-racer who is invited to partake in “the Ocean of Fire,” a 3,000-mile horse race across the Arabian Peninsula. Hopkins’ horse, Hidalgo, is a mustang, a wild mixed-breed horse that was introduced to the Americas with the arrival of the Spaniards to the New World. In the world of horse racing these mixed-breeds are considered, according to the movie, unworthy to share the road...
...really missed Cardwell Potts,” Porter said. “He’s arguably the best team racer in the country. He’s obviously a huge help...