Word: sporting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...average haul of eight. Evidently, the quadrennial depression from national winter shortcomings is no more memorable than the average American luge run. Still, George vowed to slay the dragon of Olympic mediocrity: "We should go after ((excellence)) and spare no expense." So with baseball an exhibition sport this summer in Seoul, would Owner Steinbrenner donate an ace Yankee hurler during the pennant stretch for the sake of national glory? Sure -- "if the other owners did." Pause. Hmm. Well . . . "You wouldn't want to give up your star players. Maybe somebody from Triple...
...first, short-track skating looks less like a sport than a kung-fu gang war on ice, the combatants wielding giant switchblades with their feet. Skaters jostle and bump around the perpetual curves of the 111-meter loop, and when one loses a jot of control, three are likely to careen across the water- slickened ice. But as Olympic spectators have seen, short-track racing is an intricate sport, replete with complex strategies. Since up to six skaters start at once, it has the drama of a pack of competitors struggling cheek to cheek -- battle like it oughta...
Watching the spandex figures balance gravity and centrifugal force as one set of skates slices within inches of another, spectators have found an appealing amount of danger. There is less of it than in aerial skiing, which is as much a sport as cliff diving in Acapulco, but much more than in that odd amalgam of shuffleboard and housecleaning called curling. In the current heat of demonstration sports, short-track skating seems worthiest to win normal- event status...
...face of all the preshow hype, as did Witt. Everywhere the rival ice queens went, cameras snapped, reporters prodded, fans pursued. Some excess was inevitable, the inescapable glamour of a competition that features svelte young women in scanty costumes. As Thomas sardonically remarked, "It's definitely a Miss America sport...
...newest of the Olympic skating events, ice dancing is still struggling to define itself. The exquisite artistry of Britain's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, who took the gold in 1984 with their creative Bolero routine, seemed to point the sport in a new direction. But this year's competitors cleaved to more traditional ballroom steps. The silver-winning Soviet pair of Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko were elegant, and Bronze Medalists Tracy Wilson and Robert McCall of Canada were charming -- but neither couple took the sport anywhere it had not gone before...