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Let’s just view Canadian boxer Mary Spencer’s defeat yesterday at the gloves of China’s Li Jinzi as another character building experience. Her career might have its share of near-misses (a wildcard invite secured Spencer a place on the Canadian Olympic team and a bye into the quarter-finals almost guaranteed her a bronze medal) but this loss has certainly left Spencer hungrier than ever for competition—she has already stated plans to try again for the gold in 2016. To ease the pressures of training Spencer has been known to visit hairstylist Tony Gereige of Saci Salon in her hometown of Windsor, Ontario, an experience she describes as “my getaway from my everyday boxing in the gym.” According to Gereige himself, “Mary’s hair is as tough as she is.”

As Canada’s athletes gear up for the London 2012 Olympic Games, we speak with a veteran and a newcomer—six-time medallist Clara Hughes and first-time Olympian boxer Mary Spencer—about preparation, pressure and product.