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Czisny working out jitters, has eyes on Turin

By Bonnie DeSimone
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, October 21, 2005

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- She was a great practice skater, but in competition, Alissa Czisny's elegant features often froze up and her jumps didn't get off the ground. The gleaming white sheet of ice might as well have been a black hole. "She'd pop, she'd fall, she'd cheat," said Julianne Berlin, one of her coaches. "She'd get that deer in the headlights thing," her other coach, Theresa McKendry, chimed in. Berlin and McKendry finally decided the only way to get Czisny accustomed to facing the ...

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