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92 ILLUSTRATED VOLUME 25, ISSUE 3 f easy — Boudia too might attempt to add disciplines, like the 3-meter individual and synchro — not with the powerhouse Chinese gunning to reclaim top spots. "Whether you're at the top or trying to get to the top, I think there's pros and cons," Soldati said. "A lot of times, guys at the top want to say, 'It's hard to be at the top,' and the guys wanting to get to the top say, 'It's harder to get there.' "Everyone wants to say they are in the hardest spot, but the reality is that there are challenges at every single level and you need to learn how to bal- ance those." PREPARING FOR RIO On Christmas Day, Boudia and Johnson will be 590 days away from the Games in Rio. For Johnson, it'll be a particularly busy 20 months, with his freshman diving schedule at Purdue and the international slate. He and Boudia will dive together in World Series events starting in the spring, then John- son has the World Championships in Russia later in the summer. There, he'll look to secure an Olympic spot in the platform for Team USA. "The goal is to just go into each competition and dive the best that I can, because if I do that, I'll be able to be- come a Big Ten champion, an NCAA champion," John- son said, "but honestly my goals are focused more to the international scene." And that means getting synchronized. The duo started well — Johnson called the bronze at the Diving World Cup in Shanghai in July "absurd," considering they'd not trained together long — and likely will get better. "What challenge I see for Steele and I is really step- ping up to those big dives that the rest of the world are doing, hard, hard dives. That's what we have to do," Boudia said. "We have to get consistent, that's our biggest challenge. But this partnership, we've already done well in the summer, and that was our first compe- tition together on a big stage and we came away with a bronze. So it definitely sets us up for some success, but we'll continue to train hard." j PURDUE P E R S O N A L I Z E D P R I N t Gold and Black • 2605 Yeager Road • West Lafayette, IN 47906 • 1-800-876-4678 Visit the store at GoldandBlackDigital.com for this and other great Purdue Fan items! o My check or money order made payable to GOLD AND BLACK ILLUSTRATED is enclosed. o Please charge to my: o Visa o MasterCard o American Express o Discover Card No._________________________________________________ Exp. Date ___________________ (Charge Will Appear On Your Statement As Gold and Black Illustrated) Name________________________________________________ Sec. Code # ___________________ Address ___________________________________________________________________________ City________________________________________________ State______ Zip _________________ (REQUIRED) Daytime Phone #: (_________) _______________________________________________ Email Address: ______________________________________________________________________ QTy. ITEm DESCRIPTION PRICE TOTAL Purdue Pub Print $49.95 ea. Subtotal Sales Tax (IN 7%) TOTAL Personalized 11x14 Purdue pub print. 13x16 MDF frame w/styrene image protection. (Ships via UPS Ground •No P.O. Boxes, please.) $ 49 95 FREE S&H! Your last name or business name appears on this personalized Purdue pub sign! Your full name is also imprinted as "proprietor." Please print clearly . . . Type size is relevant to number of letters. (Item #7512) LAST NAmE OR BUSINESS NAmE (UP TO 12 CHARACTERS TOTAL) PROPRIETOR'S FULL NAmE (UP TO 18 CHARACTERS TOTAL)