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...their offspring was enough to convince them that the grueling training was worth it. But by the '90s, with the economy opening up, fewer families were willing, say, to send their daughters to train as weight lifters when they could study computer science instead. After all, for every Olympic champion the sports academies produce, hundreds of thousands of other children fail. Most of these kids miss out on the education provided in regular schools. The China Sports Daily estimates that about 80% of the country's retired athletes are plagued by unemployment, poverty or chronic health problems resulting from overtraining...
...thousands of miles, in every sense, from Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, but this improvised open-air arena in a remote town in southeastern Nigeria is where current WBC world heavyweight champion Samuel Peter first honed his jab. But while Peter may have moved on to fame and fortune, his hometown gym still lacks a ring. Its aspiring fighters share head-guards, gloves, even gum-guards, and the coach who discovered Peter still plods along in obscurity, living in a tiny one-bedroom shack behind a palm-wine bar. Indeed, Coach Ade Young knows better than most just how little...
...such trip, 14 years ago, the trainer saw an adolescent Samuel Peter hitting a homemade punching bag at a local school. "I could see he had talent," Young says. "But he also was very hard-working. He said, 'Coach, I want to be a champion.' He would come to my house and talk about nothing but boxing." Peter soon became his most diligent, and eventually most successful, prot...
...grease your tear ducts but to enrich the sound and drive the countermelodies. After years of playing to the back row, guitarist Jonny Buckland has discovered that guitars come with more than one pedal, and his work on Lovers in Japan and Violet Hill is admirably precise. Will Champion, whose previous claim to fame was having the greatest drummer name of all time, bangs away on his kettles and timpani like a man celebrating his release from captivity...
...Himself a champion of unification, former University President Lawrence H. Summers made his mark by launching initiatives like the consolidation of donor information from the different schools to facilitate central fundraising, but he was prone to eschew consensus decision-making in favor of speedier directives...