Last weekend many of us watched speed skater Apollo Ohno skate amazingly awesome and win the silver medal. But if you noticed during warm ups and even right up to the races Ohno seemed incredibly calm, so calm in fact that he was yawning as he approached the start line. Many people thought that he was just not that excited, in fact he was bored to be there. Actually it is quit the opposite. Ohno was nervous just like everyone else but the yawning? He does that on purpose. Yahoo Sports did a little investigating and while talking to one of Ohno's friends found that he yawns before a race to get as much oxygen into his lungs as possible before rushing across the ice. Ohno confirmed that saying 'It gets the oxygen in and the nerves out."
