Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even for those unschooled in the mores of the sport, there was much to be excited about, including potential gold medalist France's 2-1 thriller over Norway, and Canada's rugged 3-1 victory over Cameroon Friday night to make it through to the quarter finals on the West Coast...
...islander," Maxine Peele was saying, "and I've been in the show 22 years." She was saying this at midnight, the night of the dress rehearsal. "My husband has a party boat; he's a sport fisherman. I get up at 5 o'clock and get him off to work. I fix his lunch. It's rough during rehearsal, but this is good for me. I stay home right much of the time, and there fore this is an outing. Backstage we talk everything from politics to religion...
...means, but for swimmers it is everything. They come to the Games prepared to laugh. "Let this, go out nationwide," proclaims Steve Lundquist. "I need a job. I'm keeping my ears open, and they certainly are big enough." Lundquist, 23, and Meagher, 19, are two of the sport's grizzled journeymen. She was a record holder at age five, a world champion by 14. Then, in 1980, what should have been Meagher's Olympics went on without her when the U.S. boycotted Moscow...
...pack-a-day smoker like Jim Fixx could transform himself into a sleek, 160-lb. marathoner, then anyone could do it. Fixx's 1977 best seller, The Complete Book of Running, converted the masses with rhapsodic sermons on the physical and psychological benefits of his sport. "The most important single indica tor of overall health is cardiovascular endurance, which is what running develops," he wrote. Thus there was irony mixed with tragedy when Fixx died this month at 52 from a heart attack while pounding the road in Vermont. Last week his legions of disciples around the country were...
During a race any time spent in the air is lost, as the bike is merely floating, not moving ahead. So drivers try to stay on the ground as much as possible. Promoters, though, try to play up the sport's dangerous in-the-air element. The most exciting part of this course was a large jump called the catapult; Diet Coke gives the driver who jumps the farthest a $1000 bonus. The fans love it, but it reinforces the idea that motocross is a show and not a sport...