Word: gymnast
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...income for a quarter-century. Says a prominent Chinese sports journalist: "Fu Mingxia is a money tree for her family." Still, that Olympic bonus is less than a fifth of what the Soviet Union offered athletes for gold at Seoul -- and about one-third of 1% of what American gymnast Mary Lou Retton earned from capitalist sources after her Olympic heyday...
...that the popular Li Jing -- China's premier gymnast -- is a stuffed shirt. "Gymnasts only look big because TV screens are so small," he says with a wink. Among his teammates, he's the life of the party. "Li Jing is always a joker," says his coach Zhang Jian. "Except, of course, during competition, when it counts...
...former role as team baby and mascot has been taken over by this year's huggable 16-year-old, Nadia Anita Nall, a high school junior from suburban Baltimore. Nall's first name was bestowed in honor of Nadia Comaneci, who won Olympic gold as a gymnast in 1976 while Nall's father watched TV awaiting her birth. But the name was dropped from family usage in favor of Anita. So too, when she was seven, was her seemingly foreordained pursuit of gymnastics. She focused on swimming, set age-group records by 12 and notched an adult American record...
PETER PAN. Critics scoffed when ex-gymnast Cathy Rigby dared to take on Mary Martin's showcase role, but she has proved herself a worthy successor -- on national tour and, for two holiday seasons, on Broadway. The special effects will never compare with Hook, but the storytelling is sweeter and more...
Reilly did her best Mitch Gaylord immitation--making saves only a gymnast could get to. With nearly 17 minutes remaining, Princeton forced the keeper to dive for the save. The Tigers picked up the rebound, and Reilly had to jump to deflect that...