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By Steve Wulf

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Maybe you've never competed in the Olympics. Maybe you've never ridden the conveyor belt that takes kayakers to the top of the Shunyi Olympic Rowing/Canoe Park K1 slalom course. Maybe you haven't been asked to wind your way down a 350-meter gauntlet of rushing, swirling water that drops down twice. But you know the feeling. Sort of. Right now, we're all on the conveyor belt. We're being pulled up the slope of summer sports—nothing we can do about it—while football coaches wring sw ...

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