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...coaches spotted a talent for the backstroke and nurtured it. When he was put into a special school for swimmers at age nine, he practiced for 51*2 hours every day. There were 25- and 50-meter pools at the school. There was a two-story building with locker rooms and classrooms. There were weights, instruction, coaches always on the pool deck. Want to be a champion? That was how to become a champion...
Notes: Kerr invited Rev. Robert Buccharelli '56 into the locker room before the game to offer a prayer for the success of the new season. Buccharelli is associated with the Center for Opus Dei on Follen St. in Cambridge. (For most of the game however, divine intervention seemed to benefit the Mountaineers, given the number of Crimson chances that went wide. The Lord works in mysterious ways, and perhaps Austin's miss at the end balanced the ledger...
...water. She saw her parents once a year. Occasionally they would come to diving meets in her native Hubei province, and Fu would scan the audience from the platform trying to locate them. Usually, she knew they had visited only by the care packages her mother left in the locker room...
...thinking I was in anything but a clean race." To which Frank Shorter answers, "Bullshit." Craig Masback says he hopes his young daughter runs track because, with so much testing, she won't do drugs. But Shorter says he first heard about human growth hormone in a Boulder, Colo., locker room in 1984, when he eavesdropped on a conversation between two 14-year-olds discussing a buy. Where's the truth...
...athlete, at least a smart one, does not say publicly, "I'm gonna kill him." Such a statement, circled in red Magic Marker and tacked to a locker-room bulletin board, can be as inspirational as a Gipper speech. So this year's Olympians will murmur only the mildest bromides. But some of them, in this Grudge Report, will quietly nurse their enmity to find a focus for their few moments in the quadrennial sun. The old Olympic rule applies: Get mad; get even...