Word: olympian
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Christmas is just part of the pantheon, one divinity among an Olympian host of holidays that includes Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the winter solstice--and this December, for the first time in thirteen years, the Muslim month of Ramadan...
Talk of the aging and oft-injured Ewing demanding a massive contract extension at the end of this coming season surely forced the Knicks' hand. New York nearly traded him to Seattle in a different deal earlier in the summer, one that would have brought Olympian Vin Baker to the Garden along with Rice...
...Then there was the thrilling, surprising choice of Cathy Freeman to light the flame. A champion, an Aboriginal, a standing Olympian, skinny little Cathy Freeman accepted the torch from a relay of six past Australian female medals-winners on the centennial of women competing in the Games. A lot of different circles were rounded off that night. Freeman stepped lightly into the water, and built a wall of flame around her. As the cauldron rose, the stadium was reverently quiet. Then Freeman walked out of the waterfall, and the crowd gave her this fervent, earnest, "Good on yer, Cathy...
...only thing truly Olympian about these athletes is their appetite for self-aggrandizement. MARGARET ROBBINS Philadelphia...
...shot put champion C. J. Hunter may, of course, be innocent. He claims he took the anabolic steroid nandrolone with his iron supplement - that is, accidentally. Hunter's wife, the miraculous Olympian Marion Jones, may be even more innocent still. But somehow having the captain of the old O. J. Simpson dream team standing by did not ease the mind...