Word: toughest
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...Crimson will have its hands full with some of the toughest competition the Ivy League has ever produced. This field includes two Olympic finalists, versatile Christina Teuscher from Columbia and Backstroke specialist Nikki Dryden from Brown...
...always knew that Trinity would be our toughest competition, but having played them earlier we knew what we had to do to beat them," freshman No. 6 Andrew Merrill said...
...edge of a blade and calculating victory or defeat in the split second it takes to leap from the ice. Don't let the sequins and lace and the perfect coifs fool you; these ice princesses could kick a hole in the Titanic. And Kwan is perhaps the toughest of them...
...collects stuffed animals and still lives at home, but he may be the toughest skater ever to enter the rink. He's tougher than Todd Eldredge, tougher than the Russians, tougher than Tonya Harding. Consider: the big rumor in Canada says that last summer Elvis Stojko, figure skater, 5 ft. 7 in., 158 lbs., got into a bar brawl with Eric Lindros, goonish hockey star, 6 ft. 4 in., 236 lbs.--and that Lindros got the short end of the stick. Never mind that everyone denies it happened. The point is, people believe it might have happened. It's like...
Only in the worlds of figure skating and Nabokov does the age of 17 seem old. But Michelle Kwan, all of 17 and already once an ousted champion, embodies fallibility and, yes, maturity as she crosses blades with her toughest competitor, Tara Lipinski, 15 (rid of her final baby molar only last year when she won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships). Hordes of sponsors and adoring young fans are choosing sides. Even bookstores are battlegrounds, with Lipinski's Triumph on Ice taking on Kwan's Heart of a Champion. A real showdown, though, took place last week...