Word: vaultingly
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...gymnasts hand off to Mary Decker; the swimmers make way for track and field; and the ongoing sports, like boxing and basketball, get down to particular climaxes, as if there have not been plenty already. The little events continue merrily. A problem with the Olympics is that the perfect vault is followed immediately by the perfect encore, by the national anthem, by the next game, race or relay. The gold medals run together...
...Comaneci once wore, and Lyudmila Tourischeva, and which Olga Korbut, for all her charm, was too limited an athlete to achieve. Retton sealed her claim to it in the most dramatic duel in the history of the sport, winning by performing a perfect 10 in her final event, the vault-not once but twice. A lesser score would have meant defeat, or at best a tie. But while the nation held its breath, she flew off the vault and into gymnastics history...
Celebrated Pole Vaulter Billy Olson did not, but he was of good cheer. Mindful that his indoor sessions are better, Olson said, "Maybe in 1988 I should go out for the Winter Games." Former U.C.L.A. Star Mike Tully, 27, performed the tallest vault by any American in history, 19 ft. ¾ in., and the first of his three subsequent attempts at a world-record 19 ft. 3¾ in. looked rattlingly close. Spectators were enjoying the thought of Soviet Record Holder Sergei Bubka opening his U.S.S.R. Today the following morning and receiving the news. But Tully came no closer...
...telephone to friends last week that he can now afford lunch only at "some place with a takeout counter." The reason: Zuckerman, 47, has agreed to pay $182.5 million in cash to acquire the parent company of U.S. News & World Report (circ. 2.1 million), a purchase that will vault him into the major leagues of American journalism. He will be the sole owner of the magazine, a conservative, no-nonsense weekly that emphasizes politics and the economy. Although he assured the staff that he would sustain the tradition that has built a loyal readership, he makes it clear that...
Then there are the dollars, billions of them as well. When athletes who are supposedly amateurs stand to make fortunes in a pole vault, winning and profit become the same thing. Soon ends justify means. Soon other value misjudgments in society (military, ethical, intellectual) are reinforced. Soon everything is spoiled...