Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While swimming is considered a cleaner sport than track and field, drugs have been a factor several times in the past few years: East Germany is now known to have doped its female champions for two decades; two years ago, seven Chinese team members were surprise-tested in Japan and found positive for the same drug--dehydrotestosterone--just days after winning 12 out of 16 gold medals at the world championships in Rome. In the past decade, several U.S. swimmers have tested positive, including Angel Martino, who won two individual bronzes and two relay golds last week, after having been...
...store began by selling Harris tweed sport coats and cashmir sweaters--all of which "had to be imported from England," Cahaly said...
Burns said that single race had been her entire focus for the last six months and only now is she beginning to realize how much the years of dedication to her sport have paid...
After taking a two-year sabbatical from the sport, she returned to competition in 1990 and has been rowing with the U.S. national team ever since...
This overlooks, however, the grindingly hard work that O'Brien has put in over the years to perfect not his sport, but his 10 sports. There is, of course, the physical labor--the hours of running, jumping, throwing, hurdling each day that have helped him evolve, his coaches agree, from an athlete who needed to be told what to do into an athlete who not only does it but takes deep pleasure in it. "You run until you almost throw up three or four times a week, but you're outside, you're competing," he explains. "And you get into...