Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe this slander of a SPORT that combines the incredible stamina required to race several kilometers on skis with the amazing ability to quiet one's nerves and 100+ pulse long enough to target shoot accurately arises from some insecurity about the reporter's own lethargic existence. I have never raced biathalon, but I have raced on cross-country skis and I have fired at targets many times. I for one have great respect for any athlete who can skillfully combine...
...vocabulary of three small o words: "ooh" for any soaring feat after which the athlete remains in an upright position, "oops" for ungainly plops onto ice or snow and "ouch" for the spectacular disasters. Couch-cozy spectators are likely to remain otherwise speechless at the subtleties of winter sports. They will not be helped by the glossolalia that accompanies the coverage of the Games, including such fascinating but baffling terms as Axels and Lutzes, telemark and super-Gs. Enlightened appreciation will also be hindered by Zen-like axioms ("the fastest way to ski cross-country is to skate") and nonsensical...
...bent knees, curved backs, unsteadiness and crossed skis. They also look askance at failure to land with one ski in front of the other, knees flexed, hips bent and arms straight out at the sides -- the so-called telemark position, named after a region in Norway where the sport originated. The final score on a jump is made up of distance plus style points, but somehow the longest jumpers must always have the best style. In the end, the sport is mostly one of superlatives: whoever jumps farthest wins...
Canada's Fitness and Sport Minister, former Skater Otto Jelinek, apparently agreed, and asked O.C.O. to "cease and desist" from harassing small companies that were clearly not hurting the licensing efforts. O.C.O. has taken added lumps over public suspicions that it is elitist -- giving sponsors & preferential treatment on tickets and accommodations, being more interested in playing host to such visiting royalty as Norway's King Olav, Spain's Juan Carlos and Monaco's Prince Rainier than it is in the people of the host city. "I hope the Games do show a profit," says Reg Brown, 44, a rancher outside...
...folks and his, makes him work embarrassingly hard at producing an offspring -- all to help her fulfill her motherly instincts (Jake has a not too hilarious problem with his sperm count). But having been, at best, an ambivalent bridegroom (goodbye novel writing, hello advertising; goodbye sex as sport, hello sex as duty, with Chain Gang for scoring), he has an underdeveloped feeling for fatherhood...