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BEIJING — A freak of nature. A beast. Ironman. The Arnold Schwarzenegger of skiing. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde has been called each of those names and more for his unusually high ability to withstand pain and set lifting records in the weight room.
They say it takes 10,000 hours of training to make an Olympian - 36,000 million seconds of sweat and sacrifice.
They say it takes 10,000 hours of training to make an Olympian - 36,000 million seconds of sweat and sacrifice.
A freak of nature. A beast. Ironman. The Arnold Schwarzenegger of skiing. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde has been called each of those names and more for his unusually high ability to withstand pain and set lifting records in the weight room.
By Simon Jennings YANQING, China (Reuters) - A little over a year after a cruel knee injury left him on crutches, Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde has...