Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fourth in the world, behind Hungary, Italy and Russia. But in 6-ft. 7-in. Chris Humbert, the Americans have one of the best players in the sport. The home crowd could make a big difference...
...while, Dimitry was propelled by a single disappointment from his youth. As a teen on Romania's junior national gymnastics team, he had seen his dreams destroyed when a teacher called his mother and firmly suggested that Dimitry must choose: gymnastics or school. Forced to abandon the sport he loved, Dimitry says, "I made myself a commitment that I'd like my first child to be a gymnast." While courting Camelia, he shared his plan. "I said, 'It'll be a big commitment. It's gotta be a different country. But we have no money, so we may just drink...
...known in Romania before the coach's defection. "He laughed," Dimitry recalls. "He said, 'Don't bring her now. Bring her when she's nine or 10.'" Undaunted, Dimitry enrolled Dominique in a class in the Chicago area, and, as he'd hoped, she took to the sport naturally. Two months after Dominique's 10th birthday, Dimitry drove her to Houston. When Dominique saw the sign on Karolyi's gym, she squealed excitedly, "What are we doing here?" Dimitry answered, "Surprise...
...insist on seeing Bubka's ambitions solely in terms of material gain is to ignore the depth of his attachment both to his sport and to Ukraine. In addition to his athletics club in Berlin, where he conducts much of his own training, he runs the Bubka sports club in Donetsk, which sponsors 35 coaches and more than 200 children. Each February he also puts together an invitational in Donetsk, in which vaulters from all over the world compete. "I had a dream to do this for our young people," he says. "With changes in my country, many coaches have...
...their places in the boat they spent months competing against one another in pairs, that most of them are more than 6 ft. tall and weigh upwards of 160 lbs. And that things can get ugly when they're not moving water together. "Rowing is the most noncontact sport around," says Betsy McCagg, "so when we get in where we can actually touch each other, all hell breaks loose. We used to play basketball, but we're all centers. You'd get seven people in the middle with their hands up, elbowing each other in the head." During a race...