BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR: CNN's Steve Harrigan reports that Soviet-style athletic training is alive and well, and is expected to produce results in Sydney.</s>STEVE HARRIGAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Out behind the reeds, where stray dogs bark, some of the best athletes in the world prepare for the Olympics. There are no whirlpools here, no computers, no biofeedback: just bars and beams and old mats you move yourself. Russia won 26 gold medals in Atlanta. It plans to win 36 in Sydney and do it the way it always has, the Soviet way.</s>LEONID ARKAEV, OLYMPIC TEAM COACH (through translator): The Soviet school means every gymnast has to train at every exercise in gymnastics systematically, academically and with discipline.</s>HARRIGAN: A live-in training camp, three workouts a day, six days a week, beginning as early as age 8. Svetlana Khorkina, a gold medalist on the uneven bars, has lived at the training camp for over 10 1/2 years.</s>SVETLANA KHORKINA, OLYMPIC TEAM CAPTAIN (through translator): You train, eat, rest, and train again. Everything is really simple. There is any entertainment here, but we didn't come here for the entertainment.</s>HARRIGAN: The 21-year-old may soon change her monastic lifestyle soon. She posed for Russian "Playboy" and hopes for a career as a model after the games. Steve Harrigan, CNN, Moscow.
Russian Gymnastics Team Still Trains the Soviet Way