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...strength is running from 400 meters and up," Haggerty agreed. "We're going to get hurt in long jump, triple jump and pole vault...
...that the republic chooses to renew itself in the dead of winter. From George Washington's first Inaugural in late April 1789 the ceremony was pushed back to early March, and from F.D.R. to the present it has been locked in this hard, white burial vault of a month. The Dakotas, frozen thick for weeks, sent an ice wind east for the occasion, but it thawed a bit by Monday. The government bundled up before the fluted columns like an ice sculpture at a wedding--an impressive, preposterous construction molded to take one's mind off the reality that...
...ramp on a badly sprained left ankle should be shown to those prima donnas who beg out of the lineup because of the slightest twinge. Let the pro who doesn't want to play on a particular day watch a tape of Strug doing her Yurchenko 1 1/2 vault, nailing her landing and then keeping her balance as she pivots to the judges on one foot. As it turned out, Strug's vault wasn't needed to guarantee the U.S. women the gold medal in team gymnastics. But she didn't know that at the time. Said U.S. coach Mary...
...Coke "Pole Vault" In the most evocative of Coke's fine "for the fans" Olympics campaigns, a vaulter runs, the crowd roars and the voice-over intones, "Some athletes are born in greatness, and some athletes are forced into greatness by 50,000 screaming maniacs who are not going to take no for an answer...
Princeton (7-9, 3-2) will need some help if it is to vault to the top of the league standings...