Word: gruntwork
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...dehydration, if it was heat exhaustion, if it was lack of calories," says Ventura. "The combination of all these things just zapped him completely." Landis' Phonak teammates, or domestiques, deserve part of the blame. They couldn't keep pace to hand him food and water - essential domestique gruntwork. On the steep climbs, you don't want to wait for the team car for food and drink, because you'll have to use even more energy to retreat and return to the front of the peleton. Plus, it's hard to grab replenishment from the car while descending a mountain...
...practice in model-making, Woo immediately puts i-banking in a nutshell: “Essentially, my boss schmoozes with CEOs on the golfcourse to convince them to do something to make money in the big picture. I’m in the small picture. I do all the gruntwork, crunching numbers and creating presentations...
...organized everything," the friend said."She did most of the gruntwork...
...most of us idiotai, though, it is too late. Today's athletes were at the gym years ago, some since infancy, honing physical gifts with the huff-and- puff of endless gruntwork, the torturous frowns of coaches who could never be pleased and the sacrifice of the life and leisure that we take for granted. So who are we to begrudge them gold and glory? Grace and strength may seem perfectly natural, but they require painful perfection. Thus with the same envy, wonder and anticipation that the ancients experienced, we await a new round of Olympic spectacle. Let the Games...
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