The Champion's Mind is a very useful book for young athletes. It covers many practical ideas and techniques backed by real champions' stories.

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Follow live BBC Two, 5 live and text coverage of day nine of the Athletics World Championships as Britain win two 4x400m relay bronze medals.

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Identifier: indianclubexerci00kehorich Title: The Indian club exercise : with explanatory figures and positions : photographed from life : also, general remarks on physical culture : illustrated with portraitures of celebrated athletes, exhibiting great muscular development from the club exercise ... Year: 1866 (1860s) Authors: Kehoe, Simon D Subjects: Indian clubs Publisher: New York : Peck & Snyder Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: FlQUBB 8. ExBt^cisB Mn. 9. This exercise is for the single Club, and you may take as heavy aone as you can use, or about double the weight of those used in pairs—say from ten to twenty pounds. The dotted lines and arrows in the figure will explain the movementfoUy. Start from the second position, at A, and carry the Club upward andover the shoulder to position B. Next carry it up and forward, in the direction C D, and as far back-ward as E, returning it to the second position again, by the line F G H,as indicated by the arrows in the figure. Assume the position shown by the figure, throwing the chest andshoulders forward. Repeat the movement until fatigued, commencing with either arm, andalternating right and left. 64 Text Appearing After Image: Figure 9. Exercise Btx* 10. This is a combination of the Inner and Outer Moulinets with a halfInner and Outer Side Circle. Commencing from the second position, (shown in the figure by thedotted Club,) carry the Clubs JDehind the shoulders, to the position given inthe figure. From this point the movement commences, which is a very prettyone, and will require a little j)i3-ctice to execute it smoothly, particularlythe Outer Moulinet. Move both Clubs together, and uniformly. From the point A, swing both Clubs upward and forward, in thedirection indicated by the line and arrows, ABC, and then describe a FrontMoulinet, which will bring them round by the dotted line to D. Continuethe movement in the direction D E, describing the half Inner Side Circle,which ends at F, arid completes half the exercise. Now return them in the direction G—on the same line—first describing;a half Outer Side Circle, and then the reverse Moulinet, following the dottedline back to position A again. The reverse Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.

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CYD CHARISSE: 1922-2008 Actress danced into heart of Hollywood; Mary Rourke, Los Angeles Times Wednesday, June 18, 2008 (06-18) 04:00 PDT Los Angeles - -- Cyd Charisse, who brought sizzle and sophistication to dance in classic movie musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain" and "Silk Stockings," died Tuesday. She was 86. Ms. Charisse died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after suffering an apparent heart attack Monday, publicist Gene Schwam said. Ms. Charisse captured moviegoers' attention in a quick succession of films, starting with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1952, in which she partnered with dancer and actor Gene Kelly in a steamy ballet. She was strong, lithe and "drop-dead gorgeous to look at," said Larry Billman, a dance/film historian and author of her breakthrough performance. She teamed with Kelly again in "Brigadoon" in 1954 and "It's Always Fair Weather" the next year. Ms. Charisse also danced with Fred Astaire, the premier dancer of his age, in major production numbers in the '50s. In "The Band Wagon" (1953), they danced to the music of "Dancing in the Dark" on a set that looked like New York City's Central Park. Four years later, Ms. Charisse and Astaire were partners in "Silk Stockings." Astaire said that Ms. Charisse was "beautiful dynamite" on screen. Ms. Charisse's other starmaker roles of the 1950s included "Deep in My Heart" (1954), in which she danced a sexy duet with James Mitchell. Unlike many top female dancers in the era of movie musicals, Ms. Charisse was trained as a ballerina in the Russian tradition. Earlier in her movie career, Ms. Charisse's dark hair and eyes led to some unlikely roles as "ethnic-exotic" characters in B movies such as "Fiesta" (1947), in which she played the Latina fiancee of actor Ricardo Montalban. She was cast as Polynesian in "On an Island With You," a song, dance and swim film starring Esther Williams in 1948. She was born Tula Ellice Fink- lea on March 8, 1922, in Amarillo, Texas. Her older brother nicknamed her Sid, a variation on Sis. In Hollywood, she changed the spelling to Cyd. She began ballet lessons at 6, encouraged by her father, Ernest, after she developed a mild case of polio that left her with a slight atrophy on her right side. During a family vacation in Los Angeles when she was 12, her parents enrolled her in ballet classes at a school in Hollywood. One of her teachers was Nico Charisse. As a teenager, she returned to the school as a full-time student. Not long afterward, Col. W. de Basil, the director of the Ballet Russe dance company, visited the school and saw her dance. He invited her to join his company, and she toured with it. In 1939, while she was in France on tour with the ballet company, she and Nico Charisse eloped. They had one son, Nico, before their marriage ended in divorce in 1947. Ms. Charisse then married singer and nightclub entertainer Tony Martin in 1948. The couple had one son, Tony Martin Jr., and her sons survive her, along with two grandchildren. Martin and Ms. Charisse settled in Hollywood soon after their marriage. One of her earliest movies was "Something to Shout About" (1943), in which she performed in a ballet. She captured wider attention three years later in "Ziegfield Follies," when she had a brief featured moment with the film's star, Fred Astaire. It led to her signing a seven-year contract with MGM Studios in 1946. In the '60s, Ms. Charisse performed cabaret shows while she continued working in Hollywood in films such as "Two Weeks in Another Town" (1962). She made frequent guest appearances on popular television series, including "Hawaii Five-O" and "The Love Boat" in the 1970s and "Murder She Wrote" in the 1980s. She also worked in theater, performing in "Charlie's Girls" in London in the 1980s and making her Broadway debut as an aging Russian ballerina in "Grand Hotel" in 1992. She was 70 when she first appeared on Broadway. PHOTO SOURCE: www.doctormacro.info

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It was a rivalry which split the sporting nation 30 years ago and is now to be made into a film for the BBC. The duels between Seb Coe and Steve Ovett, two of the greatest middle-distance runners, were packed with such tension and drama that you were either a Coe fanatic or an Ovett fanatic. There was no middle ground.

Bloggers have giveaways which is a very cool thing. Giveaways are gifts from bloggers thanking us from tuning in. I won these freshwater pink and white pearls from Pamela at French Buttons. They are beautiful and it was amazing to get these in the mail from someone I have only met recently in blogland. An unexpected gift came from a new blogger friend. Cindy, from Cindy's Fractured Fairy Tale asked if she could send me"a little something" and this amazing oil painting came right to my door and now is in my kitchen reminding me of how real blogger friendships are. This painting has inspired my 9 yr old SS (step-son) and me to start painting our own works of art. We take Cindy's painting into the dining room and set up our paints and look at her brush strokes, the light and the shadows. Truly a thoughtful and inspiring gift. Imagine my surprise when Jami from Freckled Laundry reached out to me. She wanted to send me something too!! The pretty package arrived yesterday wrapped in toile tissue paper with her signature gift tag wrapped in twine. Inside were two of her clay tags with French lettering! One spelled out lavender with aromatic sprigs attached by lace ribbon and the other simply said, My Friend. Small reminders of how real this blogging world is.... big reminders of how large people's hearts can be. Read more »

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Aleksandr Karelin, born September 19, 1967 in Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR is a Hero of the Russian Federation and was a dominant Greco-Roman wrestler for the Soviet Union and Russia. Universally considered the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time, he won gold medals at the 1988, 1992 and 1996, as well as a silver in the …