August 30, 2004
Globe Calendar: debuts
BY: Dana Bisbee

BODY:
OLYMPIC OPENING: While the Olympics were winding down in Athens Thursday night, a local Olympian was revving up his next athletic effort.
Peter Donohoe of Cambridge, who raced bobsleds for Ireland in Nagano, Japan, in 1998 and in Salt Lake City in 2002, has opened Focus Fitness, a health and fitness facility at 303 Congress St. overlooking Fort Point Channel.
Donohoe served Greek food and had the Olympics on televisions as guests surveyed his lineup of weights and computerized exercise equipment, particularly the Body Map, a new assessment program created by the National Academy of Sports Medicine.
Nicole Glor, wife of WHDH-TV (Ch. 7) reporter Jeff Glor and a fitness instructor elsewhere, volunteered to demonstrate the Body Map, posing in front of a grid for a camera that sent her image to a computer for a fitness analysis.
Donohoe said other Olympians, including Irish runner Sinead Evans and American hockey medalist Angela Ruggiero, would be joining him as trainers.
``It must be a combination of inspiring and intimidating, being trained by Olympians,'' said WHDH-TV medical reporter Janet Wu, who also took a turn posing in front of the Body Map grid. ``An Olympian is just an ordinary person with an extraordinary commitment to achieving,'' Donohoe said.
He and club fitness director Keo Opton welcomed guests including WLVI-TV (Ch. 56) meteorologist Bonnie Schneider and Olympian Jon Didriksson of Boston, who ran for Iceland in Moscow in 1980 and is now a massage therapist.