Word: swede
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...envied. All the tennis fans on the plane-including the pilot -came around for autographs, and many of them looked at me as though their idea of dying and going to heaven was to sit and talk to Bjorn Borg for two hours." Inside the phlegmatic Swede, Phillips found, there is a bright, charming young man. "He's not wildly controversial or colorful," she says. "But he has a dry, self-deprecating wit, and the patience and good will of a true gentleman. He will sign hundreds of autographs and never let on to people that they happen...
...early rounds, "before I have a chance to get the feel of the court, the atmosphere of the tournament, the sense of my game." Ironically, his opening round opponent at Wimbledon is Egypt's Ismail El Shafei, 32, one of three players to beat Borg there. He eliminated the Swede in the third round of the 1974 Wimbledon...
...Callaghan was prime minister. His face has reflected a certain serenity as he has wrecked his opponents methodically, in turn. But the image of Borg collapsing to his knees following the last point of every final match stays sharply etched in the mind of every tennis devotee as the Swede's strongest show of emotion...
...asked. Sammy giggled. Rick talked to her about dancing. Rick did not dance. You have to try, said the dancer. You have to try everything. Sammy and Rick looked at each other. They looked down the boardwalk, past the electric skateboards, past the nude roller skaters and the Swede who juggled machetes. God, thought Sammy. He felt hungry so they bought cotton candy, chocolate chip cookies and papaya juice. On the beach, a bearded vendor offered a backrub to anyone who bought his bagels. I would like to try tightrope walking, said Rick as they watched the great whoever tiptoe...
Europe's premiere skiers will be gunning for the graceful Swede at Lake Placid. His chief competition figures to come from Andreas Wenzel, 21, of Liechtenstein, who stands second in World Cup points this year. Others to be watched, in addition to America's Mahre, are three swift Swiss: Jacques Luethy, Peter Müller and Peter Lüscher, who won the World Cup last year. Wenzel's sister Hanni, 23, the current World Cup leader, is heavily favored in the women's slaloms She will be tested by Annemarie Moser...