Jeremy Abbott leans on structure

— -- Jeremy Abbott is a four-time U.S. champion, but he has had little success at the Olympics.

At the 2010 Games in Vancouver, he skated such a poor short program that he had to go to a corner and cry when facing the media. In the short program of the team competition last week, he fell twice and dug his teammates into a hole.

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Abbott is determined to make the lessons from those past performances help him skate his best in his final Olympic competition when the men's program starts Thursday. He is an emotional guy -- he occasionally cries when he wins, too -- and his inner doubts are constantly battling his inner strength. Each whisper into his ear, though sometimes with varying volume.