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Bobsled driver Holcomb sees better things ahead |
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LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Olympic bobsledder Steven Holcomb was speeding down the icy track for a preseason training run a few weeks ago, when a piece of duct tape tore off the chassis and whizzed past his helmet.
His teammates weren't bothered. They'd seen it happen dozens of times.
Holcomb, though, was spooked. Until then, he'd never seen that before.
In a sport that demands razor-sharp hand-eye coordination, Holcomb excels even with a degenerative eye disease called keratoconus that makes reading a challenge - say nothing for steering a bobsled in a snowstorm.
"Sometimes, I really didn't see all that much out there," he said.
Read the full article at usatoday.com |
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One Small-Step For LASIK-Kind |
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From Eyeworld Magazine: February 2008
Traditional LASIK has taken the public by storm, but not the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), who until recently had put the kibosh on any refractive surgery for anyone with space aspirations. All that changed in September 2007 when NASA and the Air Force announced that they were now amenable to Intralase LASIK for astronaut applicants and the Air Force for its Jet Fighter Pilots.
Read the full article at eyeworld.org |
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