Word: rotterdam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...also completed a sweep by Ethiopian runners in the weekend's major marathon races: Belaine Densimo, the world's fastest marathoner, won the Rotterdam Marathon Sunday, and Keleke Metaferia led a 1-2 finish in the International Amateur Athletic Federation World Cup Marathon at Milan, Italy...
Lotte Van de Pol--a noted art historian from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Holland--presented a slide-show with paintings of bordello scenes and addressed the artistic implications of those paintings before an audience of about 40 people at Boylston Hall...
Against all expectations, he returned to international competition and won his second world title in Rotterdam last October with what he termed a "poor performance." Today the sensitive superstar still harbors some bitterness toward certain teammates, officials and even his parents. "Many condemned me for my irresponsibility," he says. "It was my wife Svetlana who gave me encouragement to continue...
Certainly, the charm of the tiny competitors cannot be dismissed. How, we wonder, can ones so young and so small compete with such fierce determination and concentration? The commentators may speak of "women's gymnastics," but these are adolescent girls. If the 1987 world championships, held last October in Rotterdam, are any indication of things to come, the four events will be dominated by four teenagers: Rumania's Aurelia Dobre and Daniela Silivas, and the Soviet Union's Elena Shushunova and Svetlana Baitova. Most of them weigh less than 90 lbs. and do not clear...
...start chanting "Aurelia" or "Elena" yet. If gymnastics is among the most beautiful of the summer sports, it is also among the cruelest. Titles come and go overnight, lost by the most negligible slips or breaks of form on an apparatus. In Rotterdam, Dobre surprised even her own teammates by capturing the all-around title, nudging aside co-defending World Champions Shushunova and Oksana Omelianchik of the Soviet Union, who placed second and fifth respectively. Silivas, who had emerged as the 1987 European champion just five months earlier, fell to third following bobbles on the uneven bars and balance beam...