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...they tend to train alone,” Shoemaker said. “[Cyclists] hate triathletes because they tend to be so bad at riding a bike, but now I have the mind set that, well, I’m on the cycling team and I am a bike racer...
DIED. DICK DURRANCE, 89, American ski racer who developed some of the most notable ski resorts in the Rocky Mountains; in Carbondale, Colo. After retiring from competition--with 17 national titles, an achievement that later got his face engraved on the medal awarded by the U.S. Ski Association--he became manager of the Aspen Skiing Corp. in 1947, ultimately transforming a three-run mountain into an international resort destination...
...competitive racer in high school who took time off from training his senior year to pursue music, Tsai nevertheless managed to place in the top 30 at multiple carnivals this season. Only the top 30 finishers score NCAA points...
...Walkers can blame the rules, which require that one foot touch the ground at all times and, from the time the lead foot hits the ground, the lead leg be fully straight. Sounds simple, but try doing it for the nearly four hours that it takes a world-class racer to cover the 50 km (nearly 8 km more than a marathon). "Now I realize it looks strange," Korzeniowski says during a coffee break in his Tourcoing apartment. He didn't as a teen. The sport was popular in the part of southeast Poland where he grew...
...years older than the next oldest racer (event favorite Petria Thomas), but there's nothing old-fashioned about her training. "For months now," she says, "I've been learning as much as I can about swimming and swimming fast." No matter the evidence to the contrary, her old ways of stroking were flawed, she says...