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...findings don't surprise elite gymnasts, who endure hours of punishing training every day. "I always thought that gymnastics is one of the hardest sports, if not the hardest," says Carly Patterson, the reigning Olympic women's champion. "The amount of hours we train, it's a lot for your body, and there are going to be times when you get hurt." Such injuries can sometimes be life-threatening: last summer, Wang Yan, a Chinese Olympic gymnast who was competing at her national championships, fell head-first from the uneven bars and broke her neck; in 1998, another Chinese gymnast...
...looks forward to the spring season and it’s definitely the best time of the year.” The team took to the warmer waters at Crown Point Shores Park at Mission Bay in San Diego against stiff competition—the field included defending national champion Washington as well as runner-up Stanford. While the varsity eight placed third in its division, the second varsity eight defeated Washington and Cal’s second boats to capture the Sharp Cabrillo Cup with a time of 5:52.31. “The race went really well...
Radcliffe heavyweight crew took to the water for the first time in competition, running five close races with defending NCAA champion Brown on the Seekonk River in Providence on Saturday. In the headline race, the first varsity eight, a malfunction deprived the race of official times, but the No. 11 Bears pulled across with a four-seat margin, ahead of the No. 13 Black and White. The first novice eight impressed in the first race of the day, holding off the rowers on home waters, seizing an early lead by as much as two seats before ultimately finishing a mere...
...Crimson (10-6, 2-0 Ivy) made easier work of Cornell (5-10. 0-2) on Friday than the 4-3 outcome indicates, thanks to a dominant doubles lineup and strong play at the top of the singles lineup. Saturday’s match against reigning league champion Columbia (7-5, 2-1), by contrast, was about as close as a match can be. Harvard beat the Lions on the strength of the bottom of its lineup, sealing its 4-3 victory with a clutch three-set win by freshman Alexei Chijoff-Evans.In Saturday’s win, Harvard reaped...
...caddy. An indelible memory of Woods' victory in 1997 was the bear hug he gave his waiting father behind the 18th green. And, of course, at the award ceremony, the winner is not given a trophy but instead is presented with a green jacket by the previous year's champion - more a rite of initiation than an accolade. (Even at Augusta, however, there are limits to the old-fashioned quaintness: the jacket also comes with the very modern sweetener of around $1.3 million in prize money...