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...working out with wrestlers on the Harvard team, but particularly Jantzen, whom Frayer beat when the two wrestled during the NCAA tournament. Frayer has also been traveling to various training centers, spending time at a camp at the University of West Virginia and at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo...
Regardless of what happens in Indianapolis, Rechul plans to continue training in Colorado Springs for at least another year, and try and make the World Team in 2005. He has one year left on a scholarship which allows him to study at a branch of the University of Phoenix in Colorado Springs...
Kent Haruf's previous novel wasn't just a book. It was a cause. When Plainsong was published five years ago, its gentle but indelible tale of people getting through life on the high plains of Colorado was adopted with a passion by independent booksellers, the same ones who had pushed Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain up the best-seller list. They did the trick for Plainsong too, which eventually was also nominated for a National Book Award...
...this takes place within the perennial court of inquiry that is small-town life. The meticulous carpentry of Haruf's prose, all those spare run-on sentences, owes debts to Hemingway and Cormac McCarthy. Haruf's words lend weight to the takeout-pizza boxes and so forth of modern Colorado. So is it churlish to point out that behind the facade of its steadfast language, this is a fairly sentimental book? And one too much in thrall to its own lugubrious music, which is no substitute for narrative drive. It's a fine line between gravity and listlessness. Time...
...dozen Olympic sports use Dartfish. The technology helped athletes worldwide win 45 medals in the 2002 Winter Games, according to Victor Bergonzoli, general manager of the company's U.S. unit. "There are about half a dozen similar programs," says Mike Leigh, a technologist for the U.S. Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs, Colo., who has worked in sports science for 20 years. "But none works better than Dartfish...