Word: skiing
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When a sport is transformed overnight by the arrival of new technology--graphite tennis racquets, fiber-glass vaulting poles, high-backed ski boots--the change makes everyone queasy. But performance trumps sentiment. The sport of speed skating is at one of those pivotal junctures, with good old tradition being upended by a Dutch contraption called the clap skate. Unlike the conventional skate heel, the heel of the clap skate's boot detaches from the blade like a one-way seesaw. The skater's heel lifts off the blade, lengthening the blade's contact time on the ice, then the blade...
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NAGANO, Japan: Does marijuana enhance the performance of a snowboarder? A slim majority in the International Olympic Committee believes it does, and voted yesterday to strip Canadian Ross Rebagliati of his gold medal after he tested slightly above the International Ski Federation?s threshold. But the Court of Arbitration of Sport overturned that decision today, ruling that Rebagliati would keep his medal...