Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become a member of the women's rowing team is an exhausting four year process. National testing is conducted each year in November and February. During the year of the Olympics, a winter camp is held. Last December, Thompson left school at Thanksgiving and went to Seattle, the site of one two rowing training centers, for three weeks. She was evaluated by the Olympic coaches, went through technical drills and competed in seat races...
...other training center, fortunately for Thompson, is located in Boston. Thompson was able to train with the Boston center in the morning and with Radcliffe in the afternoon. Seven hours of rowing each...
...June, Thompson competed at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis where the two training centers faced off. Thirty people, including Thompson, who raced with the Boston center and whose boat came in second, were invited to another Olympic camp...
...three boats from the Nationals then traveled to Lucerne, Switzerland for an international competition. Thompson's eight-women boat finished third behind Romania and East Germany. Thompson describes Lucerne as "beautiful...with an incredible regatta...
After Lucerne, it was back to camp and back to more cuts. Twenty-two women were left, and, for the next four weeks, from mid-July to mid-August, they trained constantly. This was an "absolutely horrible time" for Thompson. Not only was the racing methodical, but "you have to get up and race your friends. It drains you," she says...