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...biggest changes brought about by sports science is the increased use of resistance training, which includes workouts with weights as well as sessions on machines employing everything from hydraulic cylinders to rubber bands. Such training has spread even to the more skill-oriented sports, including archery and target shooting. The reason is that scientists have learned that muscle strength produces not only power but also stamina. At the National Sculling Center on the Occoquan River in Woodbridge, Va., Igor Grinko, a former Soviet rowing coach who now trains the U.S. team, has had American Keir Pearson doing 400 pulls...
...easy to write a character who has the power to charm. They're like witty people -- the author had better be able to suggest an elusive quality without making heavy weather of the whole matter. Stephen McCauley has that skill. The hero of The Easy Way Out is a fellow of no obvious consequence, but the reader gladly follows him through a dizzy emotional crisis...
That may help explain why even grandparents who have never heard of Sergei Bubka will shout along with the Games, and why half the world tunes in. If the first joy of following sports is seeing skill at work in a partisan cause, the second is watching surprise defeat expectation. Every hopeless cause is everybody's favorite, and every 1,000-to-1 shot seems like our hometown hero. The pleasure of watching Michael Jordan play is almost matched by the very different pleasure of seeing an Angolan accountant turned point guard play Michael Jordan one-on-one. That...
...conductor of great skill and dark, sexy good looks, Gergiev, 39, could be getting rich on the international concert and opera circuit. But, he says, , "that's not what it's about." What matters to him is the Kirov, whose past he reveres and in whose future he has militant confidence. "It will go on naturally and beautifully as it has for 200 years. It's full of energy -- lots of vitamins...
...Weil. Weil worked for Rollerblade until six months ago, when she quit and decided to start a team to give exhibitions and compete with other squads. She started scouting at Boston's Esplanade for talented skaters, and later held auditions to find the skaters with the most flair and skill...