A huge, plain gable overhangs a loggia, below which the land falls away, and the house appears to sit on a long, flat podium, with a sleekness that is prescient of the architect's later work.
He overcame injury to triumph at Hampden Park a fortnight ago and secured his place at the top of the long jump podium in Zurich with an impressive leap of 8.29m – 14 centimetres ahead of his nearest rival, Louis Tsatoumas of Greece.
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Some athletes are still expected to prioritise X Games success over the Olympics, but Woods has long targeted a podium finish at both.
"But let's not forget that I'm still a long way from the podium".
Standing at small podium, his long fingers wrapped round its sides, he talked for an hour and a half.
In a world that regarded higher thought largely as a staid pursuit, Emerson was a vivid, entertaining speaker — he lived for laughter or spontaneous applause — and his talk that day marked the beginning of a long career behind the podium.
Katie Naplatarski, a twelve-year resident of Lorimer street who lives half a block from Five Leaves and Lokal, leaned into the podium, her long hair falling into her face as she read her prepared statement.
On Aug. 26 he announced that although his doctor had declared him "completely cancer-free," a degree of immobility during his recovery had caused a recurrence of sciatica, which would prevent him from standing on the podium for long.
But he added that the doctor had told him not to stand on a podium for long periods because of a sciatic problem that Mr. Ozawa wrote had "gotten much worse, since I was not able to move my body while recovering from the operation".
