Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...democracy is founded," Jimmy Carter declared last month, as he struggled to organize an Olympic boycott in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It takes a considerable amount of pressure, however, for any nation to persuade its Olympic athletes and officials to pass up the biggest event in sport. The French government, which cherishes a self-proclaimed role as a mediator between Washington and Moscow, declined to put heavy pressure on its Olympic committee. Last week came the predictable result: the committee voted 22 to 0 to send a team because, as its president, Claude Collard, said...
...successful." Part of that success stemmed from the tri-captains themselves--Lenz, Thad McNulty and Joe Salvo--all of whom were drawn from different areas of the team. McNulty, a distance specialist, Salvo, a sprinter, and Lenz, who throws the hammer, provided a real sense of unity in a sport which inherently stresses individualism...
Many of the "older" women--juniors and seniors--have found themselves ousted from teams by a new crop of well-trained, specialty athletes--students who have entered with strong high school backgrounds and a desire to exel in a specific sport. Also, many women who came here believing the sports program would be a somewhat low-pressure athletic opportunity have flinched at the impact of accelerating competitiveness; and many of them, especially the juniors and seniors, have fled interscholastic sports, succumbing to the pressures of trying to practice and study...
...Senor, baseball is a sport, Spanish is a class...
Lenz would like to travel to Russia for the 1980 Olympics this summer (he's against the boycott) to get a first-hand view of the Russians' different attitude toward the sport and the intense training methods...