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...have to share precious ice space with speedskaters, limiting their ability to build speed and work on expansive elements such as spirals and intricate footwork sequences. Things aren't much better in Japan, where crowded sessions forced Asada, as an up-and-coming talent in the early 2000s, to train for a few years in California before returning to a new rink built in Nagoya. (See a brief history of Olympic sore losers...
...drill sergeant-on-steroids rage. "To a skip, you can only get our emotional way with yelling. Because as a sweeper, you can put your emotion into the broom. I cannot check somebody like in hockey. So where to go with my emotions?" (See TIME's video "How They Train: Curling...
What set the Canadian pair apart, says Dovolani, was their ability to connect to each other and express emotion. For that, he looks not at the skates, where the ice-dancing judges train their attention, but at the upper body. "I always watch their posture, their connection, and who leads and who follows," he says. "Even if it is a very technical sport, [the judges] are still human beings ... and they are emotionally affected whether they like...
Mondesir crashed through a metal fence and drove his 1994 Ford van straight into two cars of a Red Line train in Cambridge shortly after midnight on Friday. The incident occurred between the Charles/MGH and Kendall T stops...
Although he moved to Colorado his junior year of high school to train exclusively for the Olympics, Weinstein said he soon realized that he was not skating to his high standards, which he said was one of the reasons he chose to attend Harvard...