Word: walkerism
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...both your feet are off the ground, you're running. That was something Australian race walker Jane Saville forgot as she neared the end of her 20-km race. In first place and only 200 m from a triumphal finish inside Stadium Australia, Saville was dramatically, almost cruelly--but correctly--disqualified from the race for running...
...walker infringing the rules is cautioned twice, then shown the red card. China's Liu Hongyu, the 1999 world champion, and Italy's Elisabetta Perrone, who won silver in the 10-km at Atlanta, were also red-carded. When Saville too was tossed, China's Wang Liping was left to take the gold...
Hale is an ideal laboratory for the studio's architectural experiment. This region of west-central Alabama is one of the poorest stretches in the nation. The writer James Agee and the photographer Walker Evans passed the summer of 1936 here while preparing their Depression-era classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. While prosperity has come to parts of this area, the region is still dotted with the shacks chronicled in Evans' haunting photographs...
...Race walker BERNARDO SEGURA was elated after crossing the finish line in an Olympic-record-beating 20-km walk. What he didn't realize is that 400 m from victory, he committed his third "loss of continual contact with the ground"--an automatic out. Officials failed to reach him before he took a victory lap with the Mexican flag. He was halfway through an interview before getting the news...
George Bush heads to his West Texas ranch tonight for the final stages of his debate preparation. His first turn behind the mock podium was last June at his family's estate on Walker's Point in Maine. He was joined there, as he will be this weekend, by Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, who plays Al Gore. Jim Lehrer is played by media adviser Stuart Stevens, who has sharpened his skills by watching tapes of the PBS news anchor. The governor will practice in his "gym," a freestanding dwelling with bunk beds, exercise equipment and small kitchen...