As it turned out, that was a false alarm: one of the ships at the center of the media firestorm never left port and the other carried out a normal training mission in the Black Sea before quietly returning to base a few days later.
But as of now, they expect him to go through a normal spring training routine.
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He said he wanted them to realise that himself and other athletes were "normal people training hard".
Now 43, he expects to be on his normal spring training routine.
"It's my first normal spring training in three years, " Pettitte said.
And as the Mets prepare to begin their Grapefruit League schedule Saturday, any delusions of a "normal" spring training for Santana have crumbled.
They could also do with some more training in normal police work.
And former England skipper John Terry also said that preparations were continuing as normal after Saturday's training - the first high-tempo session since they arrived on Thursday.
It was thoughtfully curated, arranged and indexed so a normal, intelligent person without research training could find them.
Rivera will likely pitch his normal seven or eight innings in spring training games, but could throw additional batting practice sessions or simulated games.
The Royal Air force has stressed that the posting is a normal part of Prince William's training and says he will not perform any ceremonial duties.
Most managers ease their returning players back into the lineup, rest them when their teams have long road trips and then treat them as normal during the final days of spring training.
Sensitivity training is now accepted as a normal part of workplace indoctrination.
The rounds are to be used for training, routine weapons qualification exercises and normal duty by various department agencies.
The doctor who carried out the procedure, Dr Sundav Sugantha, who was working in an unpaid training post, said she could not remember the actual procedure but was confident she would have followed her normal practice of agreeing how many embryos were to be implanted immediately beforehand.
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