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Foil involves trying to touch your opponent’s torso with the point of your blade, observing rules on which fencer has the right of way.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch3>A Fencer Makes His Way to San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Massialas was born in Greece, but his family moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, when he was 10 years old. His father suggested he try fencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massialas took quickly to the new sport, and by the time he was in college, found himself fencing at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. In the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he was a second alternate on the U.S. Olympic fencing team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years later, at age 24, he made the U.S. Olympic team. It was his time to shine. But fate had other plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, that was the [year of the U.S.] boycott of the Olympics,” Massialas said. “I was fortunate to stay on the team for ’84 and ’88, but my best opportunity for results was in 1980.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massialas settled in San Francisco, having trained in San Jose. He took a job in advertising and started a family. His wife prodded him to start teaching fencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then, his son, Alexander, was entering preschool at the Chinese American International School, and the headmaster urged Massialas to start a fencing program there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11042645\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11042645\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Greg Massialas is a three-time Olympian who has helped make San Francisco a fencing powerhouse. \" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Massialas is a three-time Olympian who has helped make San Francisco a fencing powerhouse. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a while, it was an after-work project for Massialas, who kept an early work schedule driven by clients on the East Coast. Again, his wife, Vivian, pushed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s a piano teacher, so she appreciates the artistry and discipline of fencing,” Massialas, says. “She said, ‘You could make history, you should be doing this full time.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually Massialas heeded her advice, opening up the Massialas Foundation Fencing Center in 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Like Father, Like Son\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s now Alexander Massialas who could make history. He’s the top-ranked individual foil fencer in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"square\" link=\"file\" ids=\"11041600,11041584\"]\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Photos: Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was a child, Alexander recalls wanting to jump into training with his dad, but Massialas held off — believing Alexander was too young to take up the sport. His age requirement: 7 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times, the kids aren’t physically and mentally ready to follow instructions,” Greg Massialas explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander remembers having to wait more than a year to get on the piste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There would be days when I was ecstatic at the club, getting to watch a sport I knew I wanted to do, and then other days when I would be pouting in a corner because my dad wouldn’t let me start,” says Alexander, now 22 and a student at Stanford. “It was a funny dichotomy depending on the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander had to watch as a slightly older family friend, Gerek Meinhardt, became one of his dad’s star pupils. Meinhardt is currently ranked fourth in the world, and Rio will be his third Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11041587\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010.jpg\" alt=\"Before Gerek Meinhardt began fencing, he took piano lessons with Massialis's wife, Vivian. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1361\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010-400x284.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010-800x567.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010-960x681.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before Gerek Meinhardt began fencing, he took piano lessons with Greg’s wife, Vivian. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before he started fencing, Meinhardt met the Massialas family through a very different avenue — piano lessons with Vivian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would go over their house, take lessons from Greg’s wife, and then they’d drive me to [fencing] practice,” Meinhardt says. “I’d be in the car with Alexander and his younger sister.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Going For Gold\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Four years ago in London, Alexander Massialas was the youngest male athlete to compete on the entire U.S. Olympic team. He and Meinhardt were on a men’s foil team that finished fourth in team competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did better than anyone expected us to,” said Alexander. “But we came home with no hardware.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11041581\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. National fencing team athletes Gerek Meinhardt (left) and Race Imboden (right) practice their fencing techniques. Both will be heading to Rio to compete in the 2016 Olympics.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. National fencing team athletes Gerek Meinhardt (left) and Race Imboden (right) practice their fencing techniques. Both will be heading to Rio to compete in the 2016 Olympics. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fencing is a noble and artistic sport, but it can be tedious to stick with. The reality is, when you lose a point, you get stabbed or slashed. Despite these shots to the psyche, Alexander Massialas and Gerek Meinhardt said they never thought about quitting, and never felt pressure to continue from anyone but themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For them, the hunger for a big win has only grown since London.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, when you’re at the Olympics,” says Alexander, “you can’t shoot for anything less than gold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Men’s Team Foil Fencing competition begins on Friday, Aug. 12.\u003ca href=\"http://results.nbcolympics.com//schedules/sport=FE/full-schedule.html?intcmp=competition-schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Full schedule.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Bay Area natives train under Greg at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fencingusa.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Massialas Foundation Fencing Center\u003c/a> in the Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/276847294″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/276847294″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center has produced some good fencers over the years, but at the Olympics this year its growing presence as a foil powerhouse is remarkable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how did a world-class fencing club make its way here in the first place?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2016/08/04/iStock14581190SMALL.jpg\">\n\u003ch2>What is foil?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Foil is one of three fencing weapons. The other two are \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjE87GP8ajOAhVB54MKHSDtByEQFgg3MAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSabre_(fencing)&usg=AFQjCNFuKrsis_En4xjkCYzcBUy3RcmHoQ&sig2=Io5H9vyACBK8sRCN991Qzw&bvm=bv.128987424,d.amc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saber\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiuje2X8ajOAhVk0YMKHapqA1MQFgg3MAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F%25C3%2589p%25C3%25A9e&usg=AFQjCNGfGPmYK3J4WcPLCS3VoiHLUFnj1A&sig2=5X4H0oCj5E5IGvFvmSPKBw&bvm=bv.128987424,d.amc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">épée\u003c/a>. Foil involves trying to touch your opponent’s torso with the point of your blade, observing rules on which fencer has the right of way.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch3>A Fencer Makes His Way to San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Massialas was born in Greece, but his family moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, when he was 10 years old. His father suggested he try fencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massialas took quickly to the new sport, and by the time he was in college, found himself fencing at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. In the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he was a second alternate on the U.S. Olympic fencing team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years later, at age 24, he made the U.S. Olympic team. It was his time to shine. But fate had other plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, that was the [year of the U.S.] boycott of the Olympics,” Massialas said. “I was fortunate to stay on the team for ’84 and ’88, but my best opportunity for results was in 1980.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massialas settled in San Francisco, having trained in San Jose. He took a job in advertising and started a family. His wife prodded him to start teaching fencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then, his son, Alexander, was entering preschool at the Chinese American International School, and the headmaster urged Massialas to start a fencing program there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11042645\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11042645\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Greg Massialas is a three-time Olympian who has helped make San Francisco a fencing powerhouse. \" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/fencing-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Massialas is a three-time Olympian who has helped make San Francisco a fencing powerhouse. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a while, it was an after-work project for Massialas, who kept an early work schedule driven by clients on the East Coast. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Photos: Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was a child, Alexander recalls wanting to jump into training with his dad, but Massialas held off — believing Alexander was too young to take up the sport. His age requirement: 7 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times, the kids aren’t physically and mentally ready to follow instructions,” Greg Massialas explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander remembers having to wait more than a year to get on the piste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There would be days when I was ecstatic at the club, getting to watch a sport I knew I wanted to do, and then other days when I would be pouting in a corner because my dad wouldn’t let me start,” says Alexander, now 22 and a student at Stanford. “It was a funny dichotomy depending on the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander had to watch as a slightly older family friend, Gerek Meinhardt, became one of his dad’s star pupils. Meinhardt is currently ranked fourth in the world, and Rio will be his third Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11041587\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010.jpg\" alt=\"Before Gerek Meinhardt began fencing, he took piano lessons with Massialis's wife, Vivian. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1361\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010-400x284.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010-800x567.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20444_160722_fencing_bhs010-960x681.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before Gerek Meinhardt began fencing, he took piano lessons with Greg’s wife, Vivian. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before he started fencing, Meinhardt met the Massialas family through a very different avenue — piano lessons with Vivian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would go over their house, take lessons from Greg’s wife, and then they’d drive me to [fencing] practice,” Meinhardt says. “I’d be in the car with Alexander and his younger sister.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Going For Gold\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Four years ago in London, Alexander Massialas was the youngest male athlete to compete on the entire U.S. Olympic team. He and Meinhardt were on a men’s foil team that finished fourth in team competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did better than anyone expected us to,” said Alexander. “But we came home with no hardware.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11041581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11041581\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. National fencing team athletes Gerek Meinhardt (left) and Race Imboden (right) practice their fencing techniques. Both will be heading to Rio to compete in the 2016 Olympics.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20437_160722_fencing_bhs03-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. National fencing team athletes Gerek Meinhardt (left) and Race Imboden (right) practice their fencing techniques. 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"content": "\u003cp>The United States took the field in Brazil on Tuesday as the reigning Olympic champion in rugby. None of the current U.S. players could recall that previous moment of glory — because rugby was last played at the Olympics in 1924.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. wasn’t known as a world power in rugby then, and the victory in Paris stunned both the French and the Americans themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early part of the 20th century, rugby was in some places more popular than the new sport of American football, including California. The U.S. team won Olympic gold at the 1920 Games in Antwerp, Belgium. But after World War I, American college athletes were gravitating to American football, and rugby was fading out. By 1924, it was difficult to find enough good American rugby players to field a competitive team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“France, whom the United States defeated for the title in 1920, was very insistent that the titleholder enter a team so that she might be given the opportunity to remove the laurel wreath from the crown of her dear brothers from the U.S.A,” wrote Dudley DeGroot, a player on the 1924 team whose account of the Olympic journey was printed in San Francisco’s The Call newspaper over 23 days that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were looking for a punching bag,” said Norman Cleaveland, a Stanford graduate who played on that 1924 team. He provided an \u003ca href=\"http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/cleaveland_norman.pdf\">oral history that’s at the Bancroft Library in Berkeley\u003c/a>. “We were told to go to Paris and take our beatings like gentlemen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scheduling the Matches to Favor the French\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If France had one gold that seemed certain in the 1924 Olympics, it was in rugby. But just to make sure, Olympic organizers scheduled the rugby competition in May, two months before the rest of the Olympics, at a time when French rugby players would be in top form. That put the Americans on a tight schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11046251\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11046251\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924RugbyPoster-800x1251.jpg\" alt=\"A poster promoting rugby from the 1924 Paris Olympics.\" width=\"600\" height=\"1251\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster promoting rugby from the 1924 Paris Olympics. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few of the players from 1920 decided to return to the team, and open tryouts filled out the roster. All the players were from California, and they had all played more American football than rugby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early April, the team made their way to New York and set sail on the S.S. America, bound not for Paris, but for England, where they would play practice matches against English teams, considered by many to be the best in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly any group of Americans had a great deal of nerve to travel some 6,000 miles to play the greatest English teams at a game which in every sense of the word is English,” DeGroot wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But how much greater (or foolish) that nerve when it is considered that American team had never played a game, as a unit. Nor had any of the members of the team played rugby for four years, while eight of them had never played a game in their lives. And in spite of our confidence in ourselves we often wondered whether we had not undertaken something a little bit bigger than we could handle,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Tournament of Three\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you might be wondering, if Great Britain was the best in the world at rugby, why wasn’t it sending a team on a short trip across the Channel to France for the Olympics?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In DeGroot’s journal, he asks the same thing. And Great Britain wasn’t the only team that didn’t attend. The only two countries that agreed to face France in the Olympic rugby tournament were the United States and Romania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone else stayed home, it seemed, not because they were afraid of the French team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were afraid of the French fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Americans reached England, they got a drubbing from two English squads. Then they boarded a boat to France.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rough, oh, I’ve never been on such a rough ride,” Cleaveland said in his oral history. “We were seasick and we felt battered around. Well, the French had goofed off, and they hadn’t told the officials in Boulogne that we were coming. So they said we couldn’t get off the boat, we didn’t have any visas. So we said, ‘That’s what you think. You watch us, see if we get off this boat.’ We charged through the gendarmes and through the barriers. The next morning, the Paris papers featured the ‘Big Riot in Boulogne.’ Oh, we were really taken apart in the press.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11046259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11046259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-800x473.jpg\" alt=\"The 1924 Team USA rugby squad - all of them Californians.\" width=\"800\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-800x473.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-400x237.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-1180x698.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-960x568.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 1924 Team USA rugby squad – all of them Californians. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rugby players settled into their hotel in Paris — the athlete’s village wasn’t yet finished — and started preparing for the tournament. First up was France vs. Romania. The American team watched from the stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The final score of that game, if game it could be called, was 61 to 8 in favor of France,” DeGroot wrote. “We left the field fully realizing just what we were up against. A decidedly sober bunch of Americans, trying to figure out just how we were going to stop that French backfield.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next game was the U.S. vs. Romania. The Americans won easily, 37-0, but the French fans booed and hissed at the winning team throughout the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say that the French spectators were unsportsmanlike at that game would be putting it far too mildly,” DeGroot wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The French Olympic Committee agreed. In the days before the final between the U.S. and France, they published an appeal in a local newspaper for civility in the wake of the “violent sentiments” shown by French fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Americans play hard,” the committee said, “but never brutally or with bad intent. The Californians who have come over 12,000 (kilometers) to play a sport which is not theirs should have the applauds and the feeling of the French sporting public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is hard to conceive of a nation so unsportsmanlike that such an appeal is necessary,” DeGroot wrote. And then, in reference to World War I, he added, “But it is harder still to try to understand how the people of the French nation could be so hostile to representatives of a country which had so recently saved them from almost certain destruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11046183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11046183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"USA's Garrett Bender (R) runs with the ball in the men's rugby sevens match against Argentina during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Tuesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA’s Garrett Bender (R) runs with the ball in the men’s rugby sevens match against Argentina during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Rowdy Final\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the gold medal game, played on a blisteringly hot and humid Sunday in May, 40,000 fans packed Colombes Stadium in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we were standing at attention during the playing of our anthem, the storm which had been threatening all day broke loose with a tremendous clap of thunder and burst of lightning, which enhanced the majesty of the scene many times,” DeGroot wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The odds were five to one against us,” recalled Cleaveland. He added:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really had our dander up. A lot of things we knew about by playing American football the French were yet to learn. They started beating up Americans in the stands. This was during the game. The only way they could get the injured Americans into an ambulance was to bring them onto the field. We thought that some were dead, and we thought that it was only a matter of time before we would be dead, also.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play was equally nasty on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The French “did most of their tackling around the neck and shoulders. Consequently when we left our feet and hit them low, it simply laid them out,” DeGroot explained. “The French fullback was a particularly dirty player, persisting in putting his cleated foot in your face. We soon found by tackling him hard and low on the one leg he kept on the ground, he soon got over this. From that time on that fullback couldn’t kick the ball when he got it to save his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the outcome surprised everyone, even the Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, we gave them a waxing,” Cleaveland said. “We won, 17-3.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11046262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11046262\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"A scene from the 1924 gold medal rugby match between France and the U.S.\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch-400x254.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch-1180x749.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924USAFranceMatch-960x609.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from the 1924 gold medal rugby match between France and the U.S. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Something strange also happened after the big upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The French newspapers switched sides, changed their role 180 degrees, and we became great heroes,” Cleaveland said. “And Paris, I can assure you, is one of the best places in the world to be a hero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norman Cleaveland went on a tour of Europe, and worked his way back to Paris to watch the rest of the Olympics — and to enjoy being a hero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudley DeGroot got to work on his extended journal for The Call. He ended by questioning whether the Olympics should be held at all:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where will it end? Certainly the French need to be taught true sportsmanship, which is one of the objects of the Olympic games, but such a thing seems to be an impossibility,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The New Rugby\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rugby being played in Rio features just seven players per side, making it faster-paced and higher-scoring than the game of 15 per side that was played in 1924. And rugby is played far more widely today, with 12 teams in the tournament. Neither France nor the U.S. is expected to medal at these games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did the U.S. team do on Tuesday in its first Olympic rugby match in 92 years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Americans lost a close one to Argentina, 17-14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mark Jenkins and Dave Scholz contributed to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 WBUR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org\">WBUR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were looking for a punching bag,” said Norman Cleaveland, a Stanford graduate who played on that 1924 team. He provided an \u003ca href=\"http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/cleaveland_norman.pdf\">oral history that’s at the Bancroft Library in Berkeley\u003c/a>. “We were told to go to Paris and take our beatings like gentlemen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scheduling the Matches to Favor the French\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If France had one gold that seemed certain in the 1924 Olympics, it was in rugby. But just to make sure, Olympic organizers scheduled the rugby competition in May, two months before the rest of the Olympics, at a time when French rugby players would be in top form. That put the Americans on a tight schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11046251\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11046251\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/1924RugbyPoster-800x1251.jpg\" alt=\"A poster promoting rugby from the 1924 Paris Olympics.\" width=\"600\" height=\"1251\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster promoting rugby from the 1924 Paris Olympics. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few of the players from 1920 decided to return to the team, and open tryouts filled out the roster. All the players were from California, and they had all played more American football than rugby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early April, the team made their way to New York and set sail on the S.S. America, bound not for Paris, but for England, where they would play practice matches against English teams, considered by many to be the best in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly any group of Americans had a great deal of nerve to travel some 6,000 miles to play the greatest English teams at a game which in every sense of the word is English,” DeGroot wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But how much greater (or foolish) that nerve when it is considered that American team had never played a game, as a unit. Nor had any of the members of the team played rugby for four years, while eight of them had never played a game in their lives. And in spite of our confidence in ourselves we often wondered whether we had not undertaken something a little bit bigger than we could handle,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Tournament of Three\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you might be wondering, if Great Britain was the best in the world at rugby, why wasn’t it sending a team on a short trip across the Channel to France for the Olympics?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In DeGroot’s journal, he asks the same thing. And Great Britain wasn’t the only team that didn’t attend. The only two countries that agreed to face France in the Olympic rugby tournament were the United States and Romania.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone else stayed home, it seemed, not because they were afraid of the French team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were afraid of the French fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Americans reached England, they got a drubbing from two English squads. Then they boarded a boat to France.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rough, oh, I’ve never been on such a rough ride,” Cleaveland said in his oral history. “We were seasick and we felt battered around. Well, the French had goofed off, and they hadn’t told the officials in Boulogne that we were coming. So they said we couldn’t get off the boat, we didn’t have any visas. So we said, ‘That’s what you think. You watch us, see if we get off this boat.’ We charged through the gendarmes and through the barriers. The next morning, the Paris papers featured the ‘Big Riot in Boulogne.’ Oh, we were really taken apart in the press.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11046259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11046259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-800x473.jpg\" alt=\"The 1924 Team USA rugby squad - all of them Californians.\" width=\"800\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-800x473.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-400x237.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-1180x698.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RugbyTeamUSA24-960x568.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 1924 Team USA rugby squad – all of them Californians. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rugby players settled into their hotel in Paris — the athlete’s village wasn’t yet finished — and started preparing for the tournament. First up was France vs. Romania. The American team watched from the stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The final score of that game, if game it could be called, was 61 to 8 in favor of France,” DeGroot wrote. “We left the field fully realizing just what we were up against. A decidedly sober bunch of Americans, trying to figure out just how we were going to stop that French backfield.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next game was the U.S. vs. Romania. The Americans won easily, 37-0, but the French fans booed and hissed at the winning team throughout the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say that the French spectators were unsportsmanlike at that game would be putting it far too mildly,” DeGroot wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The French Olympic Committee agreed. In the days before the final between the U.S. and France, they published an appeal in a local newspaper for civility in the wake of the “violent sentiments” shown by French fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Americans play hard,” the committee said, “but never brutally or with bad intent. The Californians who have come over 12,000 (kilometers) to play a sport which is not theirs should have the applauds and the feeling of the French sporting public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is hard to conceive of a nation so unsportsmanlike that such an appeal is necessary,” DeGroot wrote. And then, in reference to World War I, he added, “But it is harder still to try to understand how the people of the French nation could be so hostile to representatives of a country which had so recently saved them from almost certain destruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11046183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11046183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"USA's Garrett Bender (R) runs with the ball in the men's rugby sevens match against Argentina during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Tuesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/gettyimages-587622122_custom-e5d29ec624f1c140af7bf519bfb6e9b98d3f66e6-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA’s Garrett Bender (R) runs with the ball in the men’s rugby sevens match against Argentina during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Rowdy Final\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the gold medal game, played on a blisteringly hot and humid Sunday in May, 40,000 fans packed Colombes Stadium in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we were standing at attention during the playing of our anthem, the storm which had been threatening all day broke loose with a tremendous clap of thunder and burst of lightning, which enhanced the majesty of the scene many times,” DeGroot wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The odds were five to one against us,” recalled Cleaveland. He added:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really had our dander up. A lot of things we knew about by playing American football the French were yet to learn. They started beating up Americans in the stands. This was during the game. The only way they could get the injured Americans into an ambulance was to bring them onto the field. We thought that some were dead, and we thought that it was only a matter of time before we would be dead, also.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play was equally nasty on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The French “did most of their tackling around the neck and shoulders. Consequently when we left our feet and hit them low, it simply laid them out,” DeGroot explained. “The French fullback was a particularly dirty player, persisting in putting his cleated foot in your face. We soon found by tackling him hard and low on the one leg he kept on the ground, he soon got over this. 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He ended by questioning whether the Olympics should be held at all:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where will it end? Certainly the French need to be taught true sportsmanship, which is one of the objects of the Olympic games, but such a thing seems to be an impossibility,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The New Rugby\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rugby being played in Rio features just seven players per side, making it faster-paced and higher-scoring than the game of 15 per side that was played in 1924. And rugby is played far more widely today, with 12 teams in the tournament. Neither France nor the U.S. is expected to medal at these games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did the U.S. team do on Tuesday in its first Olympic rugby match in 92 years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Americans lost a close one to Argentina, 17-14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mark Jenkins and Dave Scholz contributed to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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We know the predominant wind comes from the south, so \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">w\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">e’re expecting to be in pretty choppy water in Rio. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think this is probably the best place to train for that.[contextly_sidebar id=”YvSrFeQ9MJ6e8ZxWluZCVzRMFrnla1O1″]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>I was recently in Rio, and I could see that the sewage sometimes flows directly into the ocean. Are you concerned about that?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Definitely. I’ve prepared for 10 years to be able to race at the Olympics. The last thing we want is to get sick once we’re there. Unfortunately, we’ve had to race in dirty water before. I don’t bring a water bottle in my boat. I don’t drink anything when I do training sessions. Just make sure you have good hygiene, and reduce your contact time as much as possible.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>I know you’ve actually been using some new biomonitoring technology for kayakers. How does that work?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s basically an \u003ca href=\"https://www.motionizeme.com/\">app on a smartphone\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and it comes with two sensors. One that is taped onto your boat. The other is attached to the kayak paddle itself. So it can measure every angle, every tiny jostle in the boat. It can measure how far you’re going per stroke, how far you’re going on your left side versus your right side, and it’s all in real time. That information is relayed to your phone, which is in a dry pouch on the boat itself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/274948617″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>So you’re actually watching on your phone as you’re kayaking? Does it improve your performance?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Definitely. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My coach and I are on a shoestring budget operating off of whatever we can fundraise. But we’re competing against [well-funded] teams like \u003ca href=\"https://www.britishcanoeing.org.uk/\">Great Britain’s. \u003c/a> They have a staff of scientists that actually crunch this data for their athletes. So to be able to have this tool helps us level the playing field.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11028255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11028255\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Maggie Hogan, 37, says after a long day of training she's sore "everywhere but my eyebrows."\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maggie Hogan, 37, says after a long day of training she’s sore “everywhere but my eyebrows.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You’re a little bit older than most Olympic athletes. What’s it like to make your first Olympic games at age 37?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s definitely a dream come true\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. I started the sport pretty late in life. I didn’t start training for it full time until I was about 26 years old. Usually, around the world, kids are starting kayaking at maybe 12. But if you look at our Olympians and our medal winners, a lot of times they’re in their late 20s to early 30s. Our sport is very technical, and requires a lot of strength and power, and a lot of endurance. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that’s in probably the tippiest kayak in the world. Not only do you have to learn balance, but technique, speed and strength.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It takes years to develop an athlete in all of those. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How did you get into kayaking?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was a swimmer at UC Santa Barbara, and I was an ocean lifeguard during my summers. There’s an event in lifeguarding called surf lifesaving — kind of like an ocean triathlon. You do a swim, a paddleboard, and there’s this thing called a surf ski in a racing kayak. I was trying to learn to do that, and I could not keep it upright to save my life. It was so tippy. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They’re not designed for just speed like the Olympic boats are. I got in one of the racing kayaks to learn how to surf ski, and here I am. I took a detour.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How does an intelligent kayaking fan watch a race? How do they notice things like the angle that you’re dipping the paddle into the water?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You probably wouldn’t notice. It’s happening so fast. In a 500-meter race, we’re probably taking 110-120 strokes per minute. To the naked eye, and if you were far away, you probably wouldn’t be able to tell if my stroke is 5 centimeters longer than the person in lane three. It’s a very long sprint, so you’ll see the more efficient paddlers do better in the second half of the race. If you’re looking for good technique, you’re going to see those girls excel in the second 250 of the race.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>At the end of a long day of training, where are you sore?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everywhere but my eyebrows. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So to be able to have this tool helps us level the playing field.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11028255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11028255\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Maggie Hogan, 37, says after a long day of training she's sore "everywhere but my eyebrows."\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20309_IMG_1943-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maggie Hogan, 37, says after a long day of training she’s sore “everywhere but my eyebrows.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You’re a little bit older than most Olympic athletes. 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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Protesters-take-to-streets-again-in-Oakland-S-F-5936431.php\" target=\"_blank\">Protesters take to streets again in Oakland, San Francisco \u003c/a>(San Francisco Chronicle):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Swarms of chanting protesters swept through Oakland and San Francisco for the second straight night Thursday to castigate authorities for the killings of unarmed black men by police. A sign-waving throng marched through foggy Oakland and a large band of demonstrators blocked Market Street in San Francisco in an attempt to deliver their point: that the two police officers responsible for the deaths of Eric Garner, in New York, and Michael Brown, in Missouri, should have been prosecuted for murder. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Protesters-take-to-streets-again-in-Oakland-S-F-5936431.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/12/daniel_pantaleo_not_indicted_why_the_nypd_officer_wasn_t_indicted_in_the.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why no one should by surprised there was no indictment in Eric Garner case\u003c/a> (Slate):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>... the default setting for our criminal justice system—both explicitly and implicitly—is to believe that an on-duty officer who takes another citizen’s life was justified in doing so. 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Gentrification on steroids.\" \u003ca href=\"http://m.thenation.com/blog/191833-why-san-francisco-should-just-say-no-olympic-games\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2014/12/05/mayor_lees_approval_droops.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Lee's poll numbers slide in new poll \u003c/a>(SFist):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Last year, 65 percent of likely voters said they had a favorable opinion of Mayor Ed Lee according to the Chronicle. His approval rating has sunk before to 49 percent, but earlier this year was reported as high as 73 percent by the Chronicle. ... Now a SurveyUSA poll commissioned by KPIX 5 shows that Lee has slid to 47 percent approval, with the same percentage of respondents saying the quality of life in the city is getting worse. \u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2014/12/05/mayor_lees_approval_droops.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2014/12/04/texan-tries-to-figure-out-california-water-law-with-mixed-results-video/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas congressman tries to figure out California's water situation\u003c/a> (SFGate Politics blog):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A fascinating display of how one might try to explain the intricacies of California water law to an outsider, in this case panel chairman Rep. 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My job is now to competently, painlessly transition this warm creature from life to death using the blade gripped loosely in my right hand. \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/12/05/backyard-butchering-class-in-richmond-raises-dialogue-about-death-and-killing/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/warriors/ci_27072602/warriors-win-11th-row\" target=\"_blank\">Warriors win 11th in a row\u003c/a> (Bay Area News Group):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Warriors have the best record in the NBA and acted like it against New Orleans. The Warriors easily defeated the Pelicans 112-85 on Thursday at Oracle Arena, with 16-2 Golden State winning its 11th game in a row to match a franchise high set in the 1971-72 season. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/warriors/ci_27072602/warriors-win-11th-row\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/raiders/article/Hoping-for-peace-on-Earth-and-at-the-Coliseum-5933458.php\" target=\"_blank\">Hoping for peace on Earth -- and at the Coliseum \u003c/a>(San Francisco Chronicle):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sunday’s Raiders-49ers game should be intense and nasty on the field. Let’s hope it’s not that way in the stands. The last time these two teams played each other, on Aug. 20, 2011 in a preseason game at Candlestick Park, two men were shot, another was beaten unconscious and there were dozens of fights. There were 90 calls for medical service and 70 ejections. 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A sign-waving throng marched through foggy Oakland and a large band of demonstrators blocked Market Street in San Francisco in an attempt to deliver their point: that the two police officers responsible for the deaths of Eric Garner, in New York, and Michael Brown, in Missouri, should have been prosecuted for murder. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Protesters-take-to-streets-again-in-Oakland-S-F-5936431.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/12/daniel_pantaleo_not_indicted_why_the_nypd_officer_wasn_t_indicted_in_the.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why no one should by surprised there was no indictment in Eric Garner case\u003c/a> (Slate):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>... the default setting for our criminal justice system—both explicitly and implicitly—is to believe that an on-duty officer who takes another citizen’s life was justified in doing so. Unless that baseline assumption changes, we should expect the same result the next time a cop takes someone else’s life in the line of duty. Even when the killing is caught on video. Even when the police officer uses a chokehold that’s been barred by his department. \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/12/daniel_pantaleo_not_indicted_why_the_nypd_officer_wasn_t_indicted_in_the.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/04/travis-kalanicks-aggressive-plan-to-turn-uber-into-a-more-humble-company/\" target=\"_blank\">Travis Kalanick's aggressive plan to turn Uber into a 'more humble company'\u003c/a> (VentureBeat):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Today Uber chief Travis Kalanick issued a bold statement detailing exactly how he plans to turn Uber into “a smarter and more humble company.” Kidding. Of course he didn’t. Today the famously combative CEO announced a second $1.2 billion funding round, valuing the transportation company at a massive $40 billion. And buried within that announcement, Kalanick acknowledged his company’s recent avalanche of negative press with an indirect promise to turn things around. \u003ca href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/04/travis-kalanicks-aggressive-plan-to-turn-uber-into-a-more-humble-company/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://m.thenation.com/blog/191833-why-san-francisco-should-just-say-no-olympic-games\" target=\"_blank\">Why San Francisco Should Just Say 'No' to the Olympic Games\u003c/a> (The Nation):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What's in store for the Bay Area if San Francisco's bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics succeeds? Here's one vision: \"Debt. Displacement. Militarization of public space. Gentrification on steroids.\" \u003ca href=\"http://m.thenation.com/blog/191833-why-san-francisco-should-just-say-no-olympic-games\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2014/12/05/mayor_lees_approval_droops.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Lee's poll numbers slide in new poll \u003c/a>(SFist):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Last year, 65 percent of likely voters said they had a favorable opinion of Mayor Ed Lee according to the Chronicle. His approval rating has sunk before to 49 percent, but earlier this year was reported as high as 73 percent by the Chronicle. ... Now a SurveyUSA poll commissioned by KPIX 5 shows that Lee has slid to 47 percent approval, with the same percentage of respondents saying the quality of life in the city is getting worse. \u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2014/12/05/mayor_lees_approval_droops.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2014/12/04/texan-tries-to-figure-out-california-water-law-with-mixed-results-video/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas congressman tries to figure out California's water situation\u003c/a> (SFGate Politics blog):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A fascinating display of how one might try to explain the intricacies of California water law to an outsider, in this case panel chairman Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas. \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2014/12/04/texan-tries-to-figure-out-california-water-law-with-mixed-results-video/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/12/03/4268071_rim-fire-defendants-case-will.html?sp=/99/406/263/&rh=1\" target=\"_blank\">Rim Fire defendant's case will likely focus on investigator interviews \u003c/a>(Fresno Bee):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Man accused of starting blaze that swept through part of Yosemite last year faces 11 years in prison and $500,000 in fines if convicted. Now he's recanted story about setting a small campfire and is challenging government evidence in the case. \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/12/03/4268071_rim-fire-defendants-case-will.html?sp=/99/406/263/&rh=1\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/12/05/backyard-butchering-class-in-richmond-raises-dialogue-about-death-and-killing/\" target=\"_blank\">Backyard butchering class sparks dialogue about death and killing\u003c/a> (Richmond Confidential):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Today, I’m reckoning with my own carnivorousness. As much chicken meat as I have consumed in my life, I have rarely touched a live chicken, much less held one in my lap. Swaddled in a black apron and oriented on its back, the chicken settles into a surreal avian calm and blinks drowsily. 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The Warriors easily defeated the Pelicans 112-85 on Thursday at Oracle Arena, with 16-2 Golden State winning its 11th game in a row to match a franchise high set in the 1971-72 season. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/warriors/ci_27072602/warriors-win-11th-row\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/raiders/article/Hoping-for-peace-on-Earth-and-at-the-Coliseum-5933458.php\" target=\"_blank\">Hoping for peace on Earth -- and at the Coliseum \u003c/a>(San Francisco Chronicle):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sunday’s Raiders-49ers game should be intense and nasty on the field. Let’s hope it’s not that way in the stands. The last time these two teams played each other, on Aug. 20, 2011 in a preseason game at Candlestick Park, two men were shot, another was beaten unconscious and there were dozens of fights. There were 90 calls for medical service and 70 ejections. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/rings-1-of-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-139095\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/rings-1-of-1-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"rings (1 of 1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nIf you're hanging on the edge of your seat wondering whether you'll get to see a San Francisco Summer Olympics in your lifetime, we've got news. The U.S. Olympic Committee announced Friday that San Francisco is one of four cities it's still considering as a site for the 2024 Summer Games. That means several other potential U.S. host cities — San Diego, Dallas and Philadelphia — are out of the running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just to be clear about what today's announcement means: San Francisco is among cities that can still hope to persuade the USOC they'd be the best host for the games. If the USOC decides to sponsor a bid for the 2024 Games, then the U.S. candidate would get a chance to present its case to the International Olympic Committee, which would, of course, be considering bids from cities worldwide. In other words, the process is a long, long way from the finish line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee said he is \"thrilled\" with Friday's USOC announcement, noting that the city has played host to a series of high-profile sports events in recent years, including the World Series in 2010 and 2012 and last year's America's Cup regatta. But he cautioned that \"serious work\" remains as a small local committee of civic leaders continues to explore the possibility of making a full-on bid for the games. Lee also said the next phase of the panel's work will include consultations with leaders in San Jose, Oakland and other cities. Lee's statement says, in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I believe that the San Francisco Bay Area could transform the 2024 Games through our technology and diversity, and the natural splendor of our region. Hosting the Games could also inspire and positively transform our region, accelerating and delivering tremendous long-term benefits that help meet our most pressing challenges, including thousands of units of new affordable housing, improved transportation, jobs, new parks and athletic facilities for our residents. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Ultimately, we should only move forward with a bid if we believe that we can win for America, deliver spectacular Games for the world and leave a tremendous legacy for the Bay Area’s economy, transportation systems, housing and youth.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has made serious bids for the games at least three times: as part of a crowded field for the 1956 games (hosted by Melbourne, Australia); for the 2012 games (hosted by London); and for the 2016 games (to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.olympic.org/rio-2016-summer-olympics\" target=\"_blank\">hosted by Rio de Janeiro\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the latest Associated Press write-through on the U.S. Olympic bidding process:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Eddie Pells\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An American bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics would come from Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco or Washington if the U.S. Olympic Committee decides to put a city in the running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A USOC process that began 16 months ago by sending letters to leaders in 35 cities is now at four finalists after Dallas and San Diego were scratched from the list of possible bidders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles hosted the 1932 and 1984 Olympics. Boston, San Francisco and Washington would be first-time hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Boston, LA, San Francisco and Washington have each given us reason to believe they can deliver a compelling and successful bid, and we look forward to continuing to explore the possibilities as we consider 2024,\" USOC CEO Scott Blackmun said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's an arduous and expensive process facing any potential bid city before the International Olympic Committee awards the Games in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next six months, the USOC will decide whether it even wants to try to host the Olympics. The last two U.S. candidates both suffered humiliating fourth-place finishes: New York for the 2012 Olympics and Chicago for the 2016 Games that went to Rio de Janeiro\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the public, and sometimes embarrassing, domestic bid process for the 2016 Games, the USOC kept a tight lid on the group of cities under consideration in order to have more candid conversations and save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some cities didn't make the cut. San Diego was always a long shot because of its smaller size. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/curling-2000.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127148\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/curling-2000-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Area Curling Club instructor Joseph Tang shows aspiring curler Nancy Carruth of San Francisco the basics at the Oakland Ice Center. (Nina Thorsen/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area Curling Club instructor Joseph Tang shows aspiring curler Nancy Carruth of San Francisco the basics at the Oakland Ice Center. (Nina Thorsen/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been listening to public radio during the Olympics, you may have noticed a lot of stories about curling. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PRI’s “The World” has offered “\u003ca href=\"http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-18/canadian-curling-legend-going-gold-coach-chinas-curling-team-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Canadian Curling Legend Is Going for Gold as Coach of China’s Curling Team\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-22/norways-curling-team-brings-its-fancy-pants-back-sochi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norway’s Curling Team Brings Its Fancy Pants Back for Sochi\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR’s “Morning Edition” has aired “\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/01/23/264884316/7-facts-and-3-gifs-hellooo-curling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">7 facts and 4 GIFs: Hellooooo Curling\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/02/18/278952312/curlers-try-to-get-younger-people-interested-in-the-sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High School Students Are Invited to Try Curling\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why, you may ask, do public radio reporters and editors love curling? \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘It’s a real easy sport to get started, and be decent. It’s a real hard sport to get good at.’\u003ccite>— Brian Davidson,\u003cbr>\nCurling club member\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In part, I think it’s because curling seems more approachable than some of the other Olympic events. Although many of the longtime members of the San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club I spoke with are from Canada or states along the U.S.-Canada border, and thus grew up with some exposure to the sport, even Olympic-level curlers don’t need to have started training when they were toddlers, the way that top figure skaters or snowboarders do. There’s no such thing as a professional curler in the United States — the Olympic squads will return from Sochi to their regular jobs, such as teaching school, working in doctors’ offices and managing restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, I think we’re influenced by social media. My Twitter stream has been full of comments from people who have stayed up until the wee hours of the morning to watch the live stream of a curling match between Switzerland and Russia. KQED Sacramento Bureau Chief Scott Detrow even found a match playing on one of the TVs at the California Emergency Management Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also — and I did not realize this until I went to record a clinic for beginners — curling is quite possibly the most radiophonic of the winter sports. It combines the interesting percussive sounds of sweeping with the haunting rumble of stones gliding over the ice. And then there’s the yelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Davidson, one of the curling club’s senior members, informed the novices in attendance: ” ‘Sweep! Go! Hurry hard! Hard!’ All of those mean ‘sweep.’ Usually, as a team, you decide on what the commands are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another club member, Ryan Alvarado, had heard a very polite variation. “One of my skips said, ‘Yes, yes.’ And one said, ‘Yes, please. Yes, please. Yes, please.’ So you knew it was him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being able to pick out the voice of your skip, or team leader, from a confusing hubbub of other voices yelling at different teams is part of the art of curling. The skip is down at one end of the sheet of ice, and the rest of the team is at the other end — one throwing the stone and two others sweeping the ice in its immediate path, hoping to affect its speed and trajectory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/135918632&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m pretty good at yelling and being loud,” San Jose native Sergio Soria told me. He’d been meaning to come to a learn-to-curl clinic over the last several Olympiads, and finally got around to it this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Baptista made the trek in to the Oakland Ice Center from the Central Valley. “My wife got me, for Christmas, a present to come here with my buddy and go curling,” he said. “Because I’ve been watching it on TV for years, and I just really love it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Carruth of San Francisco likes the Olympics, too, but she and her husband were motivated by a challenge thrown down by her Canadian relatives. “They called us and said, ‘We signed you up for a mixed doubles bonspiel (curling tournament) in April,’ ” she said. “So we figured we’d better come try it first, before we have to go compete!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime club member Jay Diamond of Menlo Park said the homey simplicity of the curling gear can be deceptive. “Everyone sees the brooms and they think it’s light housekeeping,” he said. “But it’s actually interval cardio. It’s a really good workout. Two hours of heavy sweeping is as good as any day I spend in the gym.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you don’t have to be a gym rat, his fellow club member Kate Garfinkel said. “Anyone can do it. We have people of all ages and body types. On Friday nights we have two middle-schoolers curling with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Davidson put it this way: “It’s a real easy sport to get started, and be decent. It’s a real hard sport to get good at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127151\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/curling-clinic-320.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/curling-clinic-320.jpg\" alt=\"Wannabe curlers got an introduction to the sport from Bay Area Curling Club members at the Oakland Ice Center. (Nina Thorsen/KQED)\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wannabe curlers got an introduction to the sport from Bay Area Curling Club members at the Oakland Ice Center. (Nina Thorsen/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, if you just want to stay at the decent level, club member Jesus Barajas said, that’s fine. As long as you’re having fun, your fellow curlers will not judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You spend two hours on the ice, and it’s sort of a chess match, a lot of strategy,” he said. “Then afterwards you follow the First Rule of Curling: Take your beverage and talk through with your teammates how the game went. And then you can talk about the rest of life, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, no curling clinic, or story about curling, is complete without that famous First Rule of Curling: “Winner buys beverages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If previous groups of Olympic-season curling fans are any judge, about 20 percent of those who show up at a learn-to-curl event will come back for more lessons, and half of those will stay with the club for the long haul. Brian Davidson said the growth has been steady enough to allow the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacurling.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club\u003c/a> to secure its own dedicated ice facility, which will open later this year. Right now, like most American clubs outside the traditional curling heartlands of the Upper Midwest and Northeast, the local curlers buy time at ice arenas, competing with hockey teams and skaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dedicated ice for league curlers is the Nirvana to which one aspires,” said Davidson. “It’s the right kind of ice, so it curls very nicely. You’re able to leave your stones on the ice, you have locker rooms, you have your own bar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, their own bar. Where the First Rule will be applied strictly, no doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dedicated facility may help aspiring Bay Area Olympic curlers. Davidson said one member, who started at a learn-to-curl clinic several years ago, has made it to Olympic trials. But in order to find practice time, she had to fly up to Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The club is offering \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacurling.com/intro-to-curling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">learn-to-curl clinics\u003c/a> in Oakland and San Jose through the middle of March.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Hard!’ All of those mean ‘sweep.’ Usually, as a team, you decide on what the commands are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another club member, Ryan Alvarado, had heard a very polite variation. “One of my skips said, ‘Yes, yes.’ And one said, ‘Yes, please. Yes, please. Yes, please.’ So you knew it was him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being able to pick out the voice of your skip, or team leader, from a confusing hubbub of other voices yelling at different teams is part of the art of curling. The skip is down at one end of the sheet of ice, and the rest of the team is at the other end — one throwing the stone and two others sweeping the ice in its immediate path, hoping to affect its speed and trajectory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/135918632&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m pretty good at yelling and being loud,” San Jose native Sergio Soria told me. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/467185119.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-125580\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/467185119-640x443.jpg\" alt=\"South Lake Tahoe's Jamie Anderson competes in Olympic slopestyle opening round. (Javier Soriano/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"443\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Lake Tahoe's Jamie Anderson competes in Olympic slopestyle opening round. (Javier Soriano/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: Monday, Feb. 10: \u003c/strong> It's been a good weekend for Northern California athletes at Sochi. Julia Mancuso is now the most decorated women's Alpine skier in Olympic history. She took bronze on Monday in the super-combined, which adds times from two events: the downhill and slalom. Mancuso says the Olympics are her thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I try to stand on the podium in every competition, but there's just something about the Olympics that is even more special to me and when I try, it seems to pay off,\" Mancuso said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mancuso could win more medals. She's expected to compete later this week in the downhill, and next week, in the giant slalom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: Sunday, Feb. 9: \u003c/strong>One of our \"five to watch\" is coming home with a gold. South Lake Tahoe's Jamie Anderson managed a nearly perfect run on a course that felled one competitor after another. Here's the details: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/09/jamie-anderson-south-lake-tahoe-wins-slopestyle-gold\" target=\"_blank\">South Lake Tahoe's Jamie Anderson Wins Slopestyle Gold\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: All event times Pacific.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is well-represented during the Winter Olympics. About a third of the \u003ca href=\"http://projects1.kqed.org/olympics2014/index.html\">30 or so Golden State hopefuls\u003c/a> have Bay Area ties. Five of the locals are considered podium contenders over the next two weeks of sliding, gliding, leaping, and pratfalling. 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