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...Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt. Inside, Gillooly, Eckardt and two out-of-town thugs for hire discuss ways to keep Nancy Kerrigan from competing Jan. 7 and 8 in the U.S. figure-skating championships in Detroit. Methodically the four men run down their options: cut Kerrigan's Achilles tendon, break her leg or kneecap, kill her. According to Gillooly, he then calls Harding and asks her to pick him up. As Gillooly drives, he details a proposed $2,000 deal that carries a money-back guarantee. If Gillooly is to be believed, their dialogue goes something like this...
After last weekend's match against Columbia, she began to feel bothered by a hurt shoulder. Although she may have a tendon problem, as of yesterday afternoon, players said she would be able to play...
...were framed by harder edges. The public memory recalls Linford Christie bursting past in the 100 m, arms upraised in triumph; the private one shows Mark Witherspoon, a medal hopeful in the same event, thunder down the track for 30 meters, then suddenly collapse into a sickening heap, his tendon ruptured. On the scoreboard, the finish was played and replayed while Witherspoon lay alone, helpless on the track...
...training session. In 1987 they had to skip the French nationals after Paul's blade sliced open three of Isabelle's fingers. Two years later they missed the European championship while Isabelle recuperated from three knee operations. Just last August, Isabelle was injured once more, this time pulling a tendon and snapping a bone in her foot. Though she was back on the ice after only two months of rest, a 1 1/4-in. screw now holds the fractured bone in place...
...record had stood unapproachably majestic for 23 years, a distance of 29 ft. 2 1/2 in., about the length of a medium-size truck, easily traversed by a motorcycle daredevil propelled off a ramp -- but not by unaided tendon, sinew, flesh and blood. Only a few dared to challenge the long-jump record -- the oldest and most awesome in track and field -- set in 1968 when the American Bob Beamon flung himself through the thin Olympic air of high-altitude Mexico City, spanning a gap no man had crossed before...