Despatie Keen to Dive Back Into Things in Beijing
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"I told myself, 'Just stand up, walk it off and see how it goes,' " [Alexandre Despatie] recalled of the mishap. "I took two steps and there was a whole bunch of cracking in there, lots of pain that I'd never felt before."
"The feeling was, '(expletive),' " he said through a whiskered grin. "For a lot of hours, I didn't believe it. There was no way I'd just broken my foot four months before the Olympics.""At that moment, I said, 'I've got to do this. There's no way I can give up on the Olympics. I haven't worked four years just to give up like that, when there's still a chance for me to go,' " said Despatie, a three-time world champion and 2004 Athens Olympic silver medallist who takes excellent podium potential to Beijing in the individual three-metre event as well.See the full content of this document
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Despatie Keen to Dive Back Into Things in Beijing
By Dave Stubbs
MONTREAL -- Alexandre Despatie got the good news last Thursday from a panel of three international judges in Thunder Bay, Ont., comfortably displaying a level of fitness that officially placed his name and that of Arturo Miranda on Cana...See the full content of this document
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