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...False) A water main broke in Salt Lake City on Super Bowl Sunday 1984, hydropowering this myth. But no link has ever been found between the Super Bowl and toilet bowls...
...house wasn't the only thing in Cohen's life teetering on the brink. Figure skating, the sport by which she defines herself, was losing considerable ground after a judging scandal in the pairs competition in the 2002 Salt Lake City Games exposed the cronyism and rigged voting on which the sport was resting. It wasn't just established competitors like Cohen who were affected. The exposé threatened to alienate skating's future champions, including rising stars like Kimmie Meissner, who last year became only the second American woman to land a triple Axel in competition. Those youngsters were busy...
...Half-pipe fans should expect a stunning show in Torino. Despite winning four of the six possible men's and women's medals in Salt Lake City, expectations are even higher for the 2006 Games, which start on Feb. 10. "We are shooting for sweeps on both sides of the podium," says Bud Keene, the U.S. Olympic half-pipe coach. "Why would we shoot for anything else? We're taking an even stronger crew (to the Olympics) this time. Our men are just unbelievable, and our women are four of the seven strongest women in the world...
...runs and listened to 50,000 Austrians chanting "Bo-de, Bo-de." They know that his eccentric skiing style - butt back, feet forward, hands flying - and utter disregard for actually finishing a race, never mind winning it, will often produce compelling sport. In the combined downhill in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, Miller was a nanosecond from disaster when he made what might have been the greatest 60 m.p.h. recovery in the history of skiing to claim a silver medal. He either lands on the podium or on his posterior. (See pictures of Bode Miller on the slopes...
...terribly recent when compared with ‘plow,’ which after 300 years in noun-land seems to have made the jump some time the mid 15th century.The interesting question to consider, and where the moral of this story lies (for anyone worth his salt at columning must always be working towards a moral) is why this is so. Why is it that so many of the verbs we use which come from nouns have to do with technology? There are exceptions of course—‘clowning’ came from...