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Like many of you I suspect, I feel two things while watching the Olympics: awe from these incomparable athletes, and inspiration to go out and play more and train harder. I haven’t yet been able to turn that inspiration into perspiration, though. At the beginning of the summer, I tore my Achilles Tendon while playing tennis (that’s the same injury that left China’s 2004 Gold Medal hurdler Liu Xiang hopping to the finish line earlier this week). As a result, I’ve spent....