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...full pressure. The shoes in the boat were placed too high and we were rushing into the stern--both of which made it really hard to get full compression. It was also pretty heavy by 6sw, and my back was already sore at the end of the warmup. Set was good though--clearly the advantage of rowing in a Pocock...
...pretty good warmup," Magyera said. "It definitely showed our depth as a young team...
William apparently needs a bit of privacy. A good student, he is, like his mother, a great swimmer (the initials on his warmup suit read WOW, for William of Wales), and in his own extremely cautious way he is beginning to cultivate a relationship with the press. In June he agreed to answer written questions submitted by the Press Association, which released the answers along with information from palace archives. Now it can be told: the young prince likes techno music, fast food and computer games. He likes shopping for his own "modern" clothes but also likes his Eton uniform...
Such anxieties are compounded by the way all figure-skating competitions are set up. Some skaters have been known to psych one another out in practice and warmup, which usually take place in the same rink. Once the competition begins, all skaters stretch in the same area backstage, as the public-address system booms their rivals' scores throughout the arena. As many as 40 min. can elapse between an on-ice warmup and a contestant's solo turn to compete. Some skaters plug in earphones, listening to whatever relaxes them, drowning out their bothers. (Lipinski tunes in to peppy dance...
...notably the men, would get so psyched up they'd walk into the woods to throw up before a race. Picabo, by contrast, can be seen near the starting gate with headphones on, and some dance music by Jamiroquai piping into her nervous system, her limbs swinging through a warmup. While she admits that a few things in life do scare her--including the dark, which she fends off with a night-light--going fast is rarely one of them. "There's no room for fear with speed," she says. "They don't coincide...