Word: roped
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Reed was introduced to jumping rope in kindergarten. The American Heart Association branch from Santa Claire, Ca. advertised a jumping class at an assembly in her school. Reed and her closest five year-old friends pounced on the opportunity. Little did she know at the time that this newfound passion would take her to far reaches of the globe...
Reed perfected her coordination as a jumper, but managing school and sports was a whole other balancing act. Beyond doing track and traveling internationally for jump rope, she was president of her high school class and an accomplished student...
...with such an exhausting array of activities and schoolwork, the trade-off between jumping rope and track was inevitable—one that Reed cites as the hardest decision of her life...
...which means F1 is out of the woods. The audience for the sport may be changing, but the sport's culture has not. Yet it must. F1 is about as likable as a 250-lb. bouncer. It lives in a high-tech bubble and thrives on a velvet-rope mentality that keeps all but a few very high rollers far away from the cars and the drivers. "F1 has gotten extremely constipated and overly grand for itself," says Jackie Stewart. "When I was a wee boy, I went to the track and got [Juan Manuel] Fangio's autograph...
...more famous paintings of the medieval Ming dynasty, which ruled China for about three centuries, is that of a court attendant holding a rope around a giraffe. An inscription on the side says the animal dwelled near "the corners of the western sea, in the stagnant waters of a great morass." According to legend, the giraffe was found in Africa, along with zebras and ostriches, and brought back with the grand 15th century expeditions of Zheng He, China's greatest mariner...