Word: windsurfer
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...elite.” This is the brand of politics that seemed to convince so many that John Kerry’s policy proposals were far less important than the fact that he spoke French, preferred Swiss to Cheez Whiz on his sandwiches, and liked to windsurf. And this is the brand of politics to which Sarah Palin adheres. She is a cultural warrior of the first rank. In her convention speech, Palin pulled no punches in her offensive, painting an almost mythical portrait of small-town America where the people “love their country, in good times...
...French woman is attempting to become the first person to windsurf across the Indian Ocean. It will be the first stunt like this since 2004, when John Kerry windsurfed his way out of the presidency." AMY POEHLER...
...only prior experience with a sail had been a disastrous attempt to windsurf in the ninth grade. I had managed to get out into the middle of the lake, but couldn’t figure out how to get back to the shore. After five minutes of trying to swim back while pulling the windsurf behind me, a motor boat finally took pity on me and dragged me and my board back to the beach. Given that the sailboat was about at least three times as big as the windsurf, I decided to take advantage of what CBI called...
Christian Marty was a fighter. The drive that pushed him to the top of the piloting profession also made him an avid sportsman who would hang glide over volcano craters, ski the most difficult slaloms and who, in 1982, became the first Frenchman ever to windsurf across the Atlantic. "In everything he did, he always wanted to prove to himself that he was as good as the best," says Claude Bouvier-Muller, 71, a retired Air France pilot and a close friend. "Yet he never bragged. It was a personal challenge...
...Marty's windsurf from Dakar, Senegal, to French Guiana took 37 days. He refused even to allow his support boat to tow him while he slept: "I didn't want to gain a single mile unless my wrists and arms felt it," he later told a magazine interviewer. "For me, freedom is being able to choose my own challenges. I am not afraid of losing, because there are honorable defeats." Among them, surely, his defeat last week...