Word: felling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...best of health, but it might be assumed that when the Russians found themselves in fourth place and nearly two full points behind the Chinese after the fourth rotation, it would make anyone sick. The women got silver, a performance only slightly less humbling. When team leader Khorkina fell off the uneven bars for the first time in her disastrous week, the team dropped to second behind Romania. The Romanians have been winning World Championships of late, but they had never won a team gold in an unboycotted Olympics...
...best male gymnast that year - it went China's Li Xiaoshuang. Like Khorkina, the glamorous Nemov was here for his final Olympics, but he almost didn't make it. He had dropped out of training for two years after Atlanta, gained weight, lost it again, went into training, fell back out. Only in the past year did he settle down and train seriously...
...Friends attribute his new attitude to his wife of three months, Galya. She was a receptionist at the famed "Lake of the Circle" training camp outside Moscow. She is five years older than he, and when they fell in love she left her husband, took her eight-year-old son and moved in with her mother, who lives near the training camp. "It was Galya who awoke a new interest in gymnastics for him," says Russian journalist Oxsana Tonkatsheeva, who is writing a book on the Russian team. "She made him want to train again...
...nine-month incarceration is off; rather, FBI director Louis Freeh is set to detail his agency's case against Lee before the Senate Tuesday - the same day as the New York times published a nuanced mea culpa for the instances in which its coverage of the story "fell short of our standards." In an effort supposedly to justify the government's incarceration of the fired Los Alamos nuclear scientist - questioned even by President Clinton following Lee's release - Freeh reportedly plans to allege that Lee met a suspected spy in 1982 and had a relationship with the head of China...
...After having the weekend to contemplate the Clinton administration's debut as a player in the world crude markets, oil traders heard the sound of spigots and responded just as Bill, Al and the Eurozone had hoped. Benchmark Brent crude oil for November delivery fell by 95 cents to $30.30 per barrel in London, and even briefly hit $29.90 - the lowest intra-day level since...