Word: summered
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Stasuik, a transfer student from Princeton, reached the semifinals of the "A" flight before losing to Martin, a freshman from Tennesee, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. Even though she isn't a pro, Martin is ranked in the top 50 on the women's circuit. This summer she played in the U.S. Open...
...Luding, a speed-skating gold medalist in Calgary, depended upon legs made strong on ice to surge to another medal last week, a silver in the 1,000-meter match sprint. That made the 28-year-old physical-education student the first athlete ever to win a winter and summer medal in the same Olympic year. Luding missed achieving a pure gold winter-summer double by a split second as she was nipped by the Soviet Union's Erika Salumae in the final heat of their best-of-three face-off. "It would have been fantastic to win the gold...
When NBC won the right to broadcast this year's Summer Games, network executives knew they were taking on diplomatic and security problems, daunting logistics and steep financial risks. Despite street protests and the odd control-room snafu, the Olympic movement has largely surmounted politics, and TV technology has done justice to that glorious diversity. But the financial news last week was disappointing for NBC and, indirectly, for the organizers of future Olympics. U.S. TV ratings were 20% lower than projected, forcing NBC to pledge compensation to advertisers...
...coverage were impeccable, NBC would have had a hard time competing with the widely cherished memory, perhaps more luminous in recollection than in fact, of ABC's handling of seven consecutive U.S. Olympic broadcasts. Particularly vivid in U.S. viewers' minds were the emotional highs of 1984, when the Summer Games were held on home ground in Los Angeles and, in the wake of a Soviet-led boycott, U.S. athletes won 83 gold medals. ABC's coverage then was so full of pro-U.S. cheerleading that athletes from other nations made a formal complaint...
...foundation announced earlier this summer that Gonzalez had won the $1000 Louis M. Lyons Award for conscience and integrity in journalism. A four-member selection panel honored her for unbiased reporting under the repressive Chilean regime...