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Sat 01 Jan 2009Irish athletes should now switch to surfing mode
Athletics, just like surfing, can still be a contest against no one else except yourself, especially post-Beijing, writes Ian O'Riordan
AFTER WEEKS of calm and unseasonably mellow surf, the big winter swells finally hit Rincon last Sunday, changing the entire mood of the small seaside town known as the Maui of the Caribbean. At Playa Maria's, where throughout the Christmas and New Year holiday the visiting surfers caught waves for fun and rolled about in the soft white water, the feeling now was one of fear and respect for what The Big Kahuna actually means.
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