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...Wang Yan, a Chinese Olympic gymnast who was competing at her national championships, fell head-first from the uneven bars and broke her neck; in 1998, another Chinese gymnast, Sang Lan, then 16 and competing at the Goodwill Games in New York City, fell while performing a warm-up vault and fractured her spine. Both athletes were paralyzed and are not likely to walk again...
Shannon Miller, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and the most decorated U.S. gymnast in history, remembers other changes to the vault as well, including a larger, padded safety zone around the take-off point. "I remember it was a big thing in the gymnastics world," she says, when the International Gymnastics Federation's new rules required the springboard to be surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped mat. "You wouldn't get credit for the vault if you didn't have a safety mat," says Miller. "Before that, it was just the springboard, and if you launched crooked, then you were...
...side, the 4x400-meter relay team of O’Callaghan, sophomore Katie Orchowski, freshman Thea Lee, and senior Erika Geihe pulled in an eighth-place finish with a time of 4:08.32.Co-captain Sally Stanton and classmate Clara Blattler topped the list in the pole vault. Both cleared the 3.50-meter bar, but because Stanton passed in fewer attempts she came away with first place.On the men’s side, sophomore Robert Kenney’s 3:59.46 finish in the 1500-meter run earned him a fourth-place nod, and classmate Stephen Chester notched the fifth spot...
...Doctors with intimate knowledge of the case tell TIME that though extremely rare, the esthesioneuroblastoma disease Sébire suffered from is now routinely controlled through early detection and surgical removal of the tumors from the nasal vault. Through such operations, specialists say, patients typically go on to lead relatively normal lives. Yet after the disease was diagnosed as the cause of her repeated nose bleeds in 2002, Sébire rejected proposals of surgical intervention - and subsequently turned down the palliative services and pain-masking medication doctors offered. It was only after her tumors had grown too large...
...athletes—in the women’s hammer with a toss of 44.97 meters.Sophomore Jack Brady finished second in both the discus and the shot put, launching the latter a personal best 15.49 meters.Freshman Sean Gil cleared 4.60 meter to win the men’s pole vault, while senior Clara Blattler finished third on the women’s side, clearing a 3.55-meter bar.—Staff writer Dixon McPhillips can be reached at fmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...