Hey, there,
Top of the morning to you.
Did you catch any of the Olympic Figure skating these past few weeks?
Jim and I are avid figure skating fans.
I love the grace and beauty combined with athleticism.
Our top figure skaters embody Physical Intelligence. Their Flexibility, Grace, Strength, and Bearing (perfect posture) are exquisite as they travel 35 MPH [...]

By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
Audiences who came of age in the Iron Curtain era still find it astonishing to contemplate a career like Diana Vishneva’s. Ms. Vishneva is the prima ballerina of the Maryinsky (Kirov) Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia, and appears on its foreign tours, dancing not just its old ballets but also its newly acquired [...]

By TARA PARKER-POPE
Does running a marathon push the body further than it is meant to go?
The conventional wisdom is that distance running leads to debilitating wear and tear, especially on the joints. But that hasn’t stopped runners from flocking to starting lines in record numbers.
Last year in the United States, 425,000 marathoners crossed the finish [...]

By KAREN CROUSE

ROME — Her body was quivering and she was sputtering for breath. The swimmer in obvious distress was not a toddler who took a tumble into the water; it was a future world-record holder in the warm-down pool at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens.
The teenager Katie Hoff was having a panic attack [...]

WHEN it comes to the popularity of judo, tae kwon do and other combat disciplines, the math says it all: Asian martial arts studios in the United States outnumber Dunkin’ Donuts outlets by more than three to one. Black Belt magazine counts some 20,000 studios nationwide and estimates that perhaps two million Americans practice Eastern [...]