Word: somersaulted
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...when she wobbled noticeably on the balance beam and only performed three tumbling passes in her floor routine. So the American went into her final performance, the floor, needing a score of 9.536 to win. With a joyful, spellbinding performance that included a double Arabian and a double-pike somersault in the tumbling runs, Patterson notched up a 9.712. In all, her margin over Khorkina was 0.176 - a crushing victory by Olympic gymnastics standards. But if the Russian felt crushed, she concealed it from the appreciative crowd of fans from across the globe. Khorkina has always loved being a diva...
...spend what little downtime they have imbibing communist propaganda. So it was for Tian Liang and Guo Jingjing, Chinese divers who are favored to win gold medals in Athens. It was the state, after measuring their narrow hips and flexible tendons, that decided the couple would somersault into the water for a living. At the time, they were just seven years old. Tian remembers his first terrifying free fall off the 10-m platform and the icy rush as he splashed into the unheated pool. For Guo, the pain came from being separated from her family at age 11, when...
...have the power to see major projects through to completion. His most important recent commission is a massive new headquarters in Beijing for China Central Television (CCTV). It's the most radically configured large building in years, a torqued trapezoid that looks a bit like a skyscraper attempting a somersault. "The building has been organized as a loop that allows it to connect every component of television making," he says. "That form makes for more of a community...
...play a limber little guy wearing a purple pantsuit who's on some major quest, the point of which is not easy to understand--dragon this, family honor that and so on. Whatever. You won't get bored unless leaping into the air, running along a wall, doing a somersault, tossing three shuriken (ninja throwing stars) at a guy in samurai armor and then decapitating him in one smooth motion is something you do, like, all the time. Game-play-wise, Ninja Gaiden is a neat combination of fighting and exploring, and although it's quite violent, the action...
...work on consistency and hitting every dive every time.” Giesbrecht said. “And in [Saturday’s] competition, I was able to hit every dive as well as I could. In the three-meter, I did a reverse two-and-a-half somersault tuck that was one of the best ones I’ve ever done in competition...