Word: slopes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more watchers for his second run, if only to see Tomba come out to collect a bouquet. If Alberto wins today," he offers gamely, "I win too." Besides, he has had a chance to see his hero in action. "The legend really fits," he says, after sideslipping down the slope. "Tomba's almost spiritual, he's so relaxed...
...Teruel begins his second run with the sun setting fast behind the mountains, the public-address system, which had been shouting "Absolutely superb! Incredible!" as other skiers took the slope, simply announces, "Michael Teruel, from Buffalo, in the Philippines." But Teruel, who finishes 71st -- 36 places higher than where he started -- is exultant. "I can't wait to go back to see the dean," he says. His friends won't see him on TV, he says, but he feels something has been achieved. Moreover, he adamantly opposes any official ruling that would limit the number of competitors...
...Olympics are a celebration of instants: not just in the milliseconds ticking away on every scoreboard in the Savoie but in the larger way in which 15 years of determination can turn on a single moment. Look away from the slope for an instant, touch the side of the run for a second, and 10,000 hours of practice are gone. The athletes carry alarm clocks -- or time bombs -- in their heads and measure their lives in heartbeats (193 a minute for a biathlete). "Luge is all feeling," explained Duncan Kennedy, an American luger who won by placing 10th (higher...
...hockey-size rink. Scuttling along a sheet of ice, brushing away bumps with a broom to clear the path of a flat, slow-moving stone. Or ducking one's head, bracing one's breakables and trying to hurtle faster than a sports car down a short stretch of sheer slope, sans turns, sans twists and sans breathing...
...election campaign that is truly a referendum on Bush's first term," says Kamber. "If that changes, if our nominee's character or fitness for the job becomes the issue -- as happened with Dukakis, whom people couldn't see as Commander in Chief -- then we're on the slippery slope...