a few football tosses away from

専大の出身者が銅メダルを射止めて、A30も遅まきながらオリンピックの話しで盛り上がっています。オリンピック競技に直接は関係ありませんが、スポーツ関連の表現をひとつ。

My trek to the 'End of Russia'

SOCHI, Russia -- Perhaps the best perk of my job is the opportunity to visit exotic places I would otherwise never get to see. In nearly 14 years at ESPN, I've climbed through the pyramids in Cairo and stood beneath Iguazu Falls in Brazil. Stories have taken me from New Zealand to Qatar, Germany to Costa Rica.

And so on Thursday morning, when I woke to another sun-splashed day and had a few hours to kill, I headed out of my hotel on a quest to find one of the points where the largest country in the world comes to an end. A few days earlier, Julie Foudy and I had stumbled into paved path behind our hotel that beautifully followed the coast of the Black Sea, winding its way to the Olympic Park.

I stood on the same path Thursday, but headed in the opposite direction, curious where exactly it might end. A simple Google Maps search told me I wasn't more than a few football tosses away from Russia's neighboring country to the east, Georgia. At least I thought it was Georgia.

Sure enough, not more than a few minutes after beginning my walk, the meticulously laid brick path came to an abrupt end. It spilled into a wasteland of rocks, dirt, empty beer bottles and forgotten flip-flops. It looked like a construction site.

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これは当然、a stone's throw from（例：The cottage is just a stone's throw from the sea.--Cambridge Dictionaries）というイディオムをアメリカ流にアレンジしたものですね。アメフトのトスに変えているところが面白い！これから学科会議、教授会と忍耐の午後になります。（UG）