Word: fielding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Harvard field hockey team proved on Saturday that a full week of well-planned practice can turn a season around...
...Jones was not even in sneakers on a night that now stands as perhaps the greatest in track-and-field history. Beginning at 6 that Monday evening, 112,574 Australians and their guests watched as American Michael Johnson embarrassed the field at 400 m, becoming the first man ever to win that event in back-to-back Olympics; as American Stacy Dragila bested a bevy of blonds to win the first-ever Olympic women's pole vault; as Romanian Gabriela Szabo held off Irishwoman Sonia O'Sullivan four times in the stretch to win a thrilling 5,000-m race...
...Melbourne Cricket Ground, soccer players endured unforeseen conditions for Summer Olympians--Antarctic winds and waves of screeching SEAGULLS that strafed the athletes and occasionally landed on the field during play...
...parents let me extend my usual four hours a day of allotted TV time if I played with other kids or did a sport. Unable to catch, throw or run, I was forced to convince them that bowling was a sport, thereby staving off continued humiliation on the soccer field. But walking around Sydney's Olympic Village, where I witnessed a giant blond Norwegian couple making out, Brazilian basketball players scootering by and Cuban boxers hogging the snowboarding video game, I was once again reminded of how out of place I am among the athletically inclined. I was about...
...head or Olympic rings shaved in. I started to wish I'd waited for Natasha. But in just 10 min.--a personal haircutting best for me--I was out of the chair, with a short haircut about which Bushell, when pushed, could only say, "Looks like you might play field hockey." I skulked out of the Athletes' Village and back to the press center, where I sadly discovered that my cuticle trauma was impairing my performance on the keyboard...