So three exhausting years after she started preparing for the Games, things are just beginning to come together.

I'm too busy just trying to prepare for the week's game.

Of course the athletes have been preparing for the Games, and their efforts should not be for nothing.

Girardi seems on the move constantly, preparing for that night's game.

As they prepared for tonight's second game with an afternoon workout yesterday, the Yankees did not reflect much on that history.

Both teams spent today making the long trip from Portland, leaving them little time to prepare for Sunday's game.

Ms. Hatch is working out twice a day to prepare for the Games.

This good result allowed him to prepare more extensively for the next Games, held in Amsterdam.

But as he prepared for Tuesday's game, he was wistful, too.

So the Rangers prepared for Monday's game as if it mattered.