Word: sporting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...take a bus for 45 minutes and then walk eight blocks. I was going to school, I was working an after-school job to help out the family, I was studying English. It was all too much." Lenny wanted to quit the sport. Oleg wouldn't listen. Swimming was important. Why had Oleg packed five bags and left everything else behind when the doors at last were opened for Jewish families to emigrate from the U.S.S.R? He had done it for his children. Swimming was going to be Lenny's ticket to acceptance, success. Wasn't America the home...
...stupidest sport of all, despite the teasing the synchers get, may be race walking. If the event were held at the Sydney Mall and restricted to the over-60 set, it might be fun to watch. But instead it's young people jogging and pretending to walk. And that looks really, really stupid. Even Debbi Lawrence, a world-record holder in the grueling 1,500 m, knows her sport is a little weird. "It looks funny, it feels funny, and it wasn't an Olympic sport when I started doing it," she says. Which was probably at 13 months...
...horror for those who like to make fun of new dumb sports is that the I.O.C. has eliminated the exhibition-sport category and is planning to cut, not add, new events. That means artistic roller skating probably won't make the cut. Artistic skating is a lot like figure skating, but it's done on '70s-style quad roller skates and to even worse music. How can that not be a sport at an Olympics in which Olivia Newton-John is performing at the opening ceremonies? There is no justice when Mr. Samaranch is in charge...
...time world champion Swedish handball team, may be best known for his other nickname: "the Snake." He's no Richard Hatch, though. In Wislander's case, the title refers to an uncanny ability to slither through a field of opponents toward the goal. To get a grip on the sport, a popular one in Europe, think soccer using hands instead of feet, with some dribbling thrown in. Adept at both offense and defense, Wislander, 36, is 10 years older than the average player. He leads an equally experienced team of thirtysomethings, many of whom have played together for a decade...
...spectacular in Sydney for more than a year. In this issue we preview the wondrous global athletes that will command the planet's attention as the pageantry unfurls. "The Olympics celebrate competitors from every part of the world," says Bill Saporito, who edits TIME's business and sport sections; he has also covered three soccer World Cups. "This week readers are going to meet a group of incredible athletes...