Word: somersault
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BEST DIVE: Back 1 1/2 somersault...
...urged Chinese to "seize the opportunity" of such go-go, free-market examples. The result was an explosion of economic growth and the elevation of "Deng Xiaoping Thought" to gospel, an ironic turn for a man who shuddered at "cults of personality." But it was the final somersault he had to perform to ensure the survival of his legacy...
...just something she did instead, and it was altogether different than it is today. "In Antwerp, we dove into the city canal, a moat really, right alongside the boathouse. In those days, the two final dives were literally picked out of a hat. Our second dive was a forward somersault--you had to land feet first. Fortunately, I went last and watched as all the other girls missed theirs. Then I made mine. But the scoring system was so laborious that you often had to read the morning paper to find out if you had won. So after my dive...
...stairs? What's the fun in that?) And then he would leap: from roofs or high windows; from a rock onto a distant tree; from a rampart onto a sheer castle wall 15 ft. away. Doug was a whiz with a rapier, a whip, a bola. He could somersault off a horse, trampoline from one speeding car to another. He was a fellow you literally could not keep down--a movie vision of young America on the ascendance in the decade after World...
Thanks to innovative choreography (including a tucked double-front somersault with a half twist), 17-year-old Ukrainian Lilia Podkopayeva tumbled her way to victory in the overall event at the European women's gymnastic championships in Birmingham, England. The next day she captured two more golds in the apparatus finals. Still, the current world champion feels her performance has room for improvement: "I'll try to avoid all my mistakes when I'm in Atlanta...