Word: toe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thomas had aimed to evoke the fiery spirit of the composer's music right from the start. But as she opened her 4-min. program with a daring combination of back-to-back triple toe loops, she mistakenly touched both feet down on the second jump. That tiny error seemed to sap her usual strength. When, midway through her routine, she faltered and put a hand on the ice, it began to feel as though the Titanic were sinking. Witt, conversely, had held tough, her Carmen enticing and flirting shamelessly. Radiant in a red costume, Witt thrived on audience adulation...
...freestyle proved to be a rematch of the Harvard-Princeton dual meet with Princeton star Mike Ross and Jaffe going toe-to-toe. Again, Ross challenged Jaffe but could not stay with him in the final yards. Jaffe's winning time was 1:37.34, 59 ahead of Ross's second-place mark...
Last month Leaver announced that Boitano would not try the jump for which he is best known, the quadruple toe loop, at the Olympics. Never performed successfully in competition, the quad has become the slippery grail of skating. Boitano practices it daily and hits almost 100% of the time. But in competition, he has thrown it -- and blown it -- four times, most noticeably at the 1987 world championship. Leaver sees little point in risking another disaster when Boitano already has what is considered the most technically difficult program ever and can score 6.0s without the quad. Boitano finds...
...third of five triples, the especially treacherous one, is something called a triple Salchow-double toe loop combination. Twice in a row now, including at the nationals, she has abbreviated it. "I don't know why I chicken out. A lot of times in practice, you'll take off completely crooked on a hard jump and still land it. If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you imagine. I'm going to land that one in the Olympics . . . if it kills...
Take football. There has been more conversation in broadcast booths on the subject of marathon football games over the past three years than the issues of free agency, instant replay and turf toe combined...