Word: sprinting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Crimson superstars Jane Fayer and Maura Costin should be especially formidable contenders. Fayer has won consistently in the freestyle sprint events, and Costin is undefeated in the 200-yd. Individual Medley, the 200-yd. butterfly, and the distance freestyle events...
...Limit. On the fourth morning, as the 82 remaining racers waited at Thief River Falls, Minn., to begin the final 148-mile sprint to Winnipeg, a wave of fierce Arctic air-accompanied by a blizzard-swept in. Temperatures plummeted to -16°, and the 30 m.p.h.-wind blew the snow horizontally across the frigid landscape. Even snowmobilers have their limit. Officials called off the race and awarded first-prize money ($10,500) to the contestant with the best time for three days (9:39:43), 19-year-old Archie Simonson of Grand Forks, N. Dak. Simonson has already earmarked...
Harvard's Pete Fitzsimmons and Huskie John Flora both broke the cage record in the two-mile. The start of the race saw Harvard's Reed Eichner sprint to an early lead. After a few laps he faltered and it was a two-man duel between Fitzsimmons and Flora...
...birch, catch a sapling in the face. Still no hill. We stop, listen. Nothing but our pounding hearts and labored panting. Retrace our steps and go back to the swamp? No, we'll crash blindly ahead on our bearing. Now the ground begins to rise: a hill. We sprint up it. Suddenly we see a tree and the red-and-white flag that signifies we have reached the checkpoint. We throw ourselves down on the ground giggling with relief. We were dead on target. Suddenly I know how Balboa felt when he first sighted the Pacific Ocean...
...teacher is an old pro, Eddie Waters (Milo O'Shea), whose last laugh seems to have sunk long ago in the still pond of his face. As his students sprint through their routines - ethnic, absurdist one-liners, god-awful - Eddie offers his philosophy of comedy: "A true joke has to do more than release tension, it has to liberate the will and the desire, it has to change the situation...