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Scott Hamilton: Training for Olympic Gold
The year before the 1984 Olympics was my most intensive year of training in figure skating. I thought about the Olympics daily, and I visualized them daily. I was not going to wait until the last minute to train. Instead, I treated every practice like a competition. I repeated every move in my program over and over, committing my body to muscle memory. I even let myself get nervous before a run-through, just as I would in competition. I wanted my body to be in sync, right down to the number of crossovers I would do before every spin or ...(100 of 1286 words)