Word: sporting
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...home of sumo wrestling, marathon running is big. So big that tiny Naoko Takahashi - 163 cms and 47 kg - has already become a national hero. She staked a claim for a place in the pantheon of Japanese sport with her gold medal-winning performance in Sunday's Olympic marathon. Not only did she win, but she recorded a new Olympic record time of two hours, 23 minutes, 14 seconds and scored Japan's first-ever women's athletic gold...
Admit it, you snickered when you first heard that women would be weight lifting in these Olympics. You imagined huge hairy-chested Belarussians with no teeth who built up muscle from pushing a handheld stump-jump plough. But I have seen this sport and, reader, it is glorious. This is the kind of sport for which the Olympics were invented...
...know where Leverett is, after all (always a plus when choosing a theater space). And the image of an "Old Library" conjures up its exact reputation as a fine but slightly aged location. But will a library always be more valuable to Harvard students than a place of recreational sport? For some, Leverett Old Library outranks the Adams House Pool Theater. After all, the latter lacks the lovely alliteration...
...recent years Asian women have dominated the sport, with China, Taiwan and India holding world championships in six of the seven weight divisions. So it was no surprise when pre-competition favorites China produced the goods and took three of the gold medals on offer, with Yang Xia taking the 53-kg gold in a new world record total of 225 kg. Yang's compatriots, Xiaomen Chen in the 63 kg and Weining Lin in the 69 kg categories, completed the hat trick for China. However, it was Bulgaria's Izabela Dragneva who won the first women's Olympic gold...
...working well. The entry of the smiling French was heralded by a selection from "Les Miserables"; the Swedish team got "The Winner Takes It All" from the ABBA-loving hosts, while the huge Aussie contingent marched along to half a dozen numbers including the classic "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport...