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Word: headwind (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...sprints. The night before, this rippled 5-ft. 10-in. racing machine ran away with her opponents' gold-medal dreams before 70,000 track-crazed Belgians. Jones, not known for her starts, popped the second fastest reaction time in a nine-woman field and plowed through a headwind to a 10.83 clocking to win the 100 m. In Zurich a few weeks earlier, she had a terrible start, then chased down the pack, nipping fellow American Inger Miller at the wire. When Jones is slow out of the blocks, she wins. When she's fast, there's no contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summer Olympics: Marion Jones | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...sprints. The night before, this rippled 5-ft. 10-in. racing machine ran away with her opponents' gold-medal dreams before 70,000 track-crazed Belgians. Jones, not known for her starts, popped the second fastest reaction time in a nine-woman field and plowed through a headwind to a 10.83 clocking to win the 100 m. In Zurich a few weeks earlier, she had a terrible start, then chased down the pack, nipping fellow American Inger Miller at the wire. When Jones is slow out of the blocks, she wins. When she's fast, there's no contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Marvelous Marion Jones | 9/1/2000 | See Source »

...lightweights journeyed to Ithaca to take on Cornell and Penn in a three-team match. With relatively calm weather and a small headwind, the varsity eight was able to outpace the Big Red and the Quakers by a comfortable margin. It ran the 1500-meter race at 5:50.06, while Cornell came in second with a 5:57.90 showing, followed by Penn...

Author: By Barat Samy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Lightweight Crew Wins, W. Heavyweights Loses to Brown | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...were both battling an incredible headwind," sophomore Michelle Guerette said. "It was an amazing race to go through. We had a very good start and were leading until the 500-meter mark, but Brown ran a solid race...

Author: By Barat Samy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Lightweight Crew Wins, W. Heavyweights Loses to Brown | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

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