Word: skiers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...member of the 1980 U.S. Summer Olympic Team and a candidate for this year's team, the recent Soviet boycott announcement has convinced me of one thing. I should have been a downhill skier' Thirteen Winter Olympics have passed without significant political demonstration while the Summer Olympics have increasingly become the target for political abuse...
...gaming center will be one of the largest in the world. There will be a 750-seat nightclub and seven restaurants, including one named Ivana, after Trump's Vienna-born wife. The former model and competitive skier is a vice president of the Trump organization...
...Mediterranean, dice clatter across wooden backgammon boards, as groups of men, each with one hand nervously working worry beads, cluster to watch. The clinking of delicate china cups announces the arrival of a coffee vendor proffering thick, black Turkish brew. As Sunday fishermen impatiently flick their lines, a water-skier waves from behind a small boat skimming across the blue-green...
Demonstrating his passion for cold, Lamine Gueye, 23, an Alpine skier from sub-Sahara Africa who went on from water skiing after moving to Paris, was standing outside on the bitterest day of the Games eating two ice-cream cones at once. As the one-man Olympic team from Senegal, he suffers people's curiosity with a pleasant shrug. "I'm black and I'm a ski racer and I'm Senegalese and I'm tall, but I wish that I could just be a ski racer. I'm crazy about the downhill...
...proud to represent my country," said Chinese Alpine Skier Wang Guizhen, 23. "Our level is not high, but I took part in the Lake Placid Games and I feel we've made some progress." Well, some ... She placed 18th in the 1980 giant slalom, but tangled with a gate in the first run at Sarajevo and was disqualified. Said Jin Xuefei, 20, also on the Chinese women's team (her name means "flying golden snow"): "Our aim at the Olympics is to study athletes from other countries, especially the American women." What of the future? The young women...