Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson, which is playing squash like it invented the sport, was definitely up for the match against one of the best teams in the country...
...Olympics, the women's figure-skating competition, always the grand finale, has proved the durable stuff of fantasy. Thousands of little girls would like to catch the sparkle from those glittering beads and waft away to the Olympics too. Their elders say simply that they like to watch the sport because it looks both artful and effortless, like flight...
...opera -- of Tonya Harding, her spooky husband and seedy associates all blaming one another for last month's attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan. Harding is determined to skate -- and by braving the court with her case has made sure that the U.S. team remains Harding and Kerrigan. Now, sports officials are looking for ways to have the star-crossed duo practice separately until the women's figure-skating competition begins next week. Otherwise, the efforts of other athletes competing in more decorous endeavors will be overshadowed as the public and the media hunger for a catfight. Notwithstanding the blades...
Harding is at the center of this are-you-ready-to-rumble transformation of the sport. "I've been skating 20 years for a gold medal," she told TIME last week. "And I'm not going to give up until I get one." Her lawyers plowed right into the legal obstacles that precede the Feb. 23 competition. Last week the U.S.O.C. called a hearing in Norway on Feb. 15 requiring Harding to respond to charges that she not only failed to live up to the Olympic code of conduct but participated in the crime or failed to report her knowledge...
Harding has much at stake. Especially for women, figure skating is a big- money sport. Harding has said that when she skates, she often sees dollar signs. After a ragged childhood (her mother has married seven times, her father left home in 1985), she yearns for the limousine life. Hardship, she told TIME, "made me know the reality of money, that you might have some one day, and the next day it could all be gone." It's hard to know whether any of her dreams will survive when the headlines and lawsuits have faded, though plans to film...