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...then a senior drag racer with license plates reading "Sarah Downing' roared up behind her and swatted" the ball out of her stick as Paul Bunyan would knock down a tree...
Last week Diann Roffe-Steinrotter could identify with that. Clad in skintight purple spandex at the starting gate of the Olympic course, the diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) racer from Potsdam, New York, gazed down the ice- glazed slope to the distant valley below. In the Arctic chill, a kaleidoscopic blur of 40,000 snowsuits gazed back through a vast video screen. "I was sick-to-my-stomach nervous," she said. "I tried to drink water. My insides felt like California during the earthquake." But somehow as she zipped past red barns and sailed over moose and lynx paths down...
Raleigh -- Legendary stock-car racer RICHARD PETTY, nicknamed "the King," seems to be preparing to enter North Carolina's 1996 gubernatorial election, as state G.O.P. officials have urged him to do. The longtime county commissioner has announced that he won't seek re-election, but that doesn't mean he's leaving politics. He recently helped launch both the Richard Petty Political Action Committee and the Richard Petty Policy Group. Paul Shumaker Jr., Petty's political consultant, will say only, "The formation of pac and the policy group does elevate his involvement in the political process...
...current undergraduates competed: junior Norman Bellingham, a 1988 gold medalist in the kayak pairs who was denied a medal this years; senior rower Snorre Lorgen, who competed for Norway; senior swimmer Kris Singleton, who competed in the 100 meter butterfly; and senior swimmer Simon Wainwright, a 200 meter butterfly racer...
...HARVARD, Dunne decided not a continueracing competitively, feeling she could not beworld-class racer given such a demanding academicschedule. She also says she wanted to have theexperience of "growing up" that she could not haveby having a peer group years ahead...