Word: superhumans
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...which can travel at speeds up to 200 mph—is the second-fastest-moving object in sports behind the jai-alai ball. “Bad,” as O’Connor and her teammates call it, is a game of nuance, strategy and superhuman agility, played most competitively in Southeast Asia and Denmark. Badminton was first observed by British army personnel in occupied India circa 1850, where—called “Poona”—it had existed for centuries. Entranced by the game, the soldiers brought it home. As lore...
...still can, if you like, make jokes about the cross-country ski team, which will get buried in ice chips. It's not the team's fault. The worst-kept secret this side of bike racing is that the best cross-country skiers, seeking superhuman endurance, are often druggies. "If you take the results page and look at the Top 30," says Justin Wadsworth, 33, who will compete in his third Games at Salt Lake City, "up to 40% could possibly be dopers ... It almost makes me sick." Last year six Finns failed drug tests at the world championships. Rest...
...goes the old saying, reminding us that the spirit and the physique have long been seen as mirroring each other. That mirror is cracked now. Too many modern Olympians are built less like gods than monsters - or monster trucks. And a few of them behave like monsters, too. Superhuman or sub? One sometimes wonders. If the Olympic Movement is a religion - and in its rhetoric it often resembles one - then its definition of sainthood could use some work...
Through him ideas become verbally and nimbly alive. All but a bitter few of his colleagues can positively confirm his intellectual talent and academic merit. As his former student and grateful friend, I, along with countless others, can personally attest to his superhuman generosity, intellectual energy and kindness...
...headaches and rivalries. And in a way, their pre-Sept. 11 sensibilities are just as appropriate. As their viewers have been urged to do, these postmodern, pre-terror-war creations are living life as they would have lived it on Sept. 10. And these days that is the most superhuman feat...