Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Camarillo, Calif...
Corte Madera, Calif...
...eight years he was between records, Stones was kneaded mentally and physically by Weight Lifter-Psychologist Harry Sneider at Ambassador College in Pasadena, Calif., home base for the worldwide Church of God. They do more than just prepare for a competition, they foretell it, envision it and rehearse it, complete with sound effects. "It's like playing a whole game of chess in your mind," says Sneider, who used to wipe the brow of Chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer before matches. Mystically, Stones says, "some things about jumping came to me recently in training sessions, things that were apparently...
Carrying the financial weight of his sport has not been easy. Winter, who lives in San Jose, Calif., calculates that it costs him about $10,000 a year to train. He has a half-time job, with full-time pay, at the First Interstate Bank, a major Olympic team sponsor. In effect, the bank is giving him a generous half-salary subsidy. Even so, he and his wife Gloria, who works at a state unemployment office, go in the hole about $200 a month for his training costs. There is no money in endorsing weights or lifting suits. Amino acids...
...regarded as a pioneer by the other paddlers: Sheila Conover, 21, a Californian and sometime student at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif., the most gifted natural athlete on the squad; Shirley Dery, 22, born in the U.S. of Hungarian parents, who trained until last year with the powerful Hungarian team; and Leslie Klein, 29, from Concord, Mass., another kayak gypsy who converted from white-water kayaking. Klein spent years "living out of a car in soaking wet clothes, eating gritty oatmeal." Her life is somewhat more conventional now; she is married to J.T. Kearney, a phys-ed professor...