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1. Watching the 1996 Olympic Games inspired Geena Davis to take up archery, practicing five hours a day for six days a week. Within two years, she was good enough to try out for the US Olympic archery team. However, she finished 24th, coming close but not qualifying for the 2000 Olympics.
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In 2020, she told People, "I had learned sports for a number of movies: I had to learn how to play baseball, and then I had to learn fencing, and TaeKwonDo, and horseback riding, and ice skating and all kinds of stuff. And I never thought of myself as athletic, but I was actually really good at everything. And so I thought, 'I want to take up a sport in the real-life way and not the movie version, because they can fake anything'...I found a coach and became utterly obsessed. Yeah, I took it up at 41, and it became my life for a couple of years."
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