Word: somersault
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...becomes harder and harder to root for the heroines, who make the wrong choice at every turn and act more like Clint Eastwood than Katharine Hepburn. The day after her near rape, Thelma is begging Louise to pick up a hitchhiker. It requires a breathtaking midair somersault of faith to believe Thelma would be eager to take up with another stranger so soon and would let him into her motel room and go limp with desire after he admits he robs convenience stores for a living...
...dives he was 3 points behind Xiong Ni of China, young-looking even for his 14 years. Xiong's tenth and last dive was near perfect. Louganis, following him, somehow found the grace and courage to be a shade better in a harder dive, a flashing reverse 3 1/2 somersault. The win gave him both diving golds, to go with the two he won at Los Angeles. Xiong took the silver, and compact, precise Jesus Mena of Mexico the bronze. Once out of the pool, Greg shed tears and threw his arms around coach Ron O'Brien, who called...
...points ahead of Tan Liangde of China, which was about where you would expect Greg Louganis to be after eight dives in the springboard preliminaries. This is something like saying the sun was where you expected it to be at noon. Next up was a moderately difficult reverse somersault that he was accustomed to nailing for 8s and 9s, but this time it went wrong. He jumped almost straight up instead of up and out, spun too close to the board, cracked his head on the board's edge as he rotated backward, and wobbled raggedly into the water...
...supposed to be a reverse 2 and 1/2 somersault, a dive where you take off from a forward position and rotate backward towards the board, finally entering a couple of revolutions later. Greene never got there...
...Jenny Greene earned Harvard's only gold in individual competition, winning the 1-meter contest with a score of 486.9. Greene trailed Penn State's Elizabeth O'Keefe after four dives, but received the best scores of the evening with her fifth dive, an inward one-and-a-half somersault in the pike position...