Word: sporting
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...broad interpretation of Dr. Spock, my parents let me extend my usual four hours a day of allotted TV time if I played with other kids or did a sport. Unable to catch, throw or run, I was forced to convince them that bowling was a sport, thereby staving off continued humiliation on the soccer field. But walking around Sydney's Olympic Village, where I witnessed a giant blond Norwegian couple making out, Brazilian basketball players scootering by and Cuban boxers hogging the snowboarding video game, I was once again reminded of how out of place I am among...
Bushell, in a clear bid for a tip, immediately asked, "What sport do you play?" I foolishly asked her what sport she thought I played, and the charade quickly ended. I told her to "give me something very athletic but not too trampolinist, if you know what I mean." She told me I could get my hair dyed in my country's colors as the Venezuelan team had done or have my country code dyed into the back of my head or Olympic rings shaved in. I started to wish I'd waited for Natasha. But in just...
...took nandrolone intentionally, he sure wasn't thinking about what might happen to her, to him, to their bank account. And if he took the drug, did his wife know? Could America's golden girl be a hypocrite? Jones has long been outspoken against drug use in her sport...
...Jacques Rogge. "The only way to have such levels is either by injection or taking pills." Even if Rogge is correct, Hunter may get off. His lawyer is Johnnie Cochran--yes, O.J.'s Johnnie Cochran--and Cochran will present Hunter's appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. At the 1996 Atlanta Games, nine athletes were found guilty of drug use. On appeal, all but two verdicts were overturned...
Saville's coach, Ron Weigel, behaved as theatrically as his protege. He wept, threw a chair and even blamed politics for Saville's elimination. When she had calmed down, Saville realized that race walking--already subject to criticism as an Olympic sport--had not been well served by her distress. "I love this sport," she avowed. "If nothing else, it makes you the toughest person around...