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ERIC AND BETH HEIDEN. In the final weeks before the Olympics, the U.S. Speed Skating Team established a training camp in Davos, Switzerland. There, on one of the world's fastest speed-skating rinks, they churned through one exhausting workout after another, honing the technique and building the stamina required for what may be the most physically demanding of all sports. Few living things can travel a mile faster than the men and women who, hunched over their skates like broken-backed dolls, swoop around an oval of ice at more than 30 m.p.h. Each stroke is a study...
...further perfect his style, Schramm trains himself through psychocibernetics--a kind of mental workout. In his mind, Schramm thinks through all his dives, incorporating positive thoughts and adjusting the mental picture until the dive is flawless. He then transfers these thoughts into actions while competing...
Unfortunately, Eichner's absence is not the Crimson's only headache. Murphy, who is the owner of two notoriously injury-ridden legs and who has been suffering from tendonitis in his knees, will show up on the starting line without having run since a light workout on Monday...
...thon, held on the Crimson's only no-workout day of the year, netted more than any other school has contributed to keep Terrier rowing alive...
...pretty fed up with not being able to maintain a normal workout schedule," Forman recalls. "It wasn't as if I could just work around my injury because everytime I tried something else went wrong...