Olympians put in 18 hours a day - so they're cults too? http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/08summer/olympics.asp http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/08summer/olympics

Olympians put in 18 hours a day - so they're cults too? http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/08summer/olympics.asp http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/08summer/olympics.asp "...Talk of "magic" swimsuits obscures the incredibly hard work swimmers such as Russell, a second-year pharmacology major, actually put in. Before I went to university it would be 20 hours a week, weights and swimming. When I went to Indiana [his first school] my training stepped up to 30 hours of weights, swimming and dry land, though that is really excessive for me. Now it’s about 18 hours..."