Word: wept
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...everything-that's-wrong-with-modern-sports poster girl, JENNIFER CAPRIATI, 24, finally made good on all of her promise by whupping Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-3 in the final of the Australian Open, notching her first-ever Grand Slam tournament. "I got the chills," said Capriati, who wept after slamming a backhand winner on the first match point past Hingis for the championship. Hingis, 20, had never lost to Capriati in five previous matches, but Capriati actually used her underdog status--she was seeded 12th--and newly discovered maturity to her advantage. "I thought, 'Why be nervous...
...would impound me," Said the Ibis, barely speaking as the Eli's upped the score; "Oh, the horrors I have witnessed of the Lampoon's dirty business-- The disturbing tests of 'fitness' they practiced with me before-- Never will I again go back to that place I was before," Wept the Ibis, "nevermore...
...Stone Professor of International Trade and Director of Harvard's Center for International Development, who is one of the most outspoken representatives of the economics profession and an avid supporter of the global debt relief program. Or it might have been Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), who reportedly wept when talking to Bono about the merits of debt relief...
Saville's coach, Ron Weigel, behaved as theatrically as his protege. He wept, threw a chair and even blamed politics for Saville's elimination. When she had calmed down, Saville realized that race walking--already subject to criticism as an Olympic sport--had not been well served by her distress. "I love this sport," she avowed. "If nothing else, it makes you the toughest person around...
...First and foremost, says Mitch Hull, national teams director for U.S. wrestling, "he's maybe inhumanly strong." American wrestler Matt Ghaffari, 38, who has spent his career trying to defeat Karelin, can unhappily vouch for that. In Atlanta the 6-ft. 4-in., 286-lb. Ghaffari wept in frustration on the silver-medal stand after he extended Karelin into overtime, but still lost. "I wrestled my heart and soul out," he says. His performance was so moving that he is now sought as a motivational speaker. He can certainly speak to never giving up: he is 0 for 22 against...