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Since that day, the U.S. has beaten Canada eight straight times in exhibition games, though all involved promptly discount their importance. Botterill, for one, said that the Canadian training is targeted to peak for the gold medal game. Shewchuk dismissed them as “prep games.” The U.S. isn’t declaring itself the overwhelming favorite either...
...Jean Senft: It isn't just one day of prep work - it's a lifetime of preparation, keeping up with new skating moves, updating our own skills. Figure skating is at once sport and art, and we try to keep ourselves educated in the realms of art, ballet and music. Judges have to be strong, not just mentally, but also physically. At the Olympic level, we're all highly skilled skaters ourselves...
...slap shot for Hughes. Cohen, a gifted performer, is as much a master of the mental game as she is of the triple Lutz. At last month's nationals she clipped Kwan twice during the warm-up before their final programs, rattling Kwan enough that she cut short the prep for her jumps. Cohen denied the hockey tactics were intentional, but gamesmanship may be part of her package. "I'm always trying to be on top of the podium," she says. Hampered by a back injury last year, Cohen was erratic in the season's first events...
That fame comes as no surprise to the people who have followed Miller. By the time he got to Carrabbassett Valley Academy (C.V.A.), a ski-racer prep school, his athleticism was evident but his style was wildly unorthodox...
...games we have played up to this point have been prep games,” Shewchuk said. “And I am confident, as are my teammates, that we have all the tools and the ability to pull it off in the end. We know that it will be a battle, but it is one we are ready...