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Printer Friendly Version http://www.omaha.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120909/NEWS/7... Published Sep 9, 2012 Published Sunday September 9, 2012 At Colorado camp, figure skaters prep for U.S. Championships By Erin Golden WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER RYAN SODERLIN/THE WORLD-HERALD Jeremy Abbott is backed up by fellow figure skaters Caitlin Yankowskas, left, Agnes Zawadzki and Christina Gao at the U.S. Olympic Training Center at Colorado Springs, Colo. They took part in an August Champs Camp to prepare for the 2013 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Omaha. Click here to view a photo gallery of the figure skaters. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The best figure skaters in the country are standing in line with trays in hand, waiting to choose between spaghetti and apricot-glazed chicken, and greeting friends with hugs and waves. It's dinnertime on Aug. 21, the first day of training camp at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, and it looks like the first day of high school or college — if your school's cafeteria had napkin dispensers stamped with the logo of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, and was populated exclusively by elite athletes. In five months, these skaters — people such as Johnny Weir, Evan Lysacek and Alissa Czisny — will be in Omaha, getting a few minutes to try to achieve perfection on the ice at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Before then, they'll put in hundreds of hours of work, tailor their programs with coaches and choreographers and skate in front of packed crowds in Paris, Moscow and Seattle.
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