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...Figure skater Paul Wylie gets his opportunitytonight. The second-time Olympian will be the 17thperformer in this evening'stwo-minutes-and-40-second-long original program...
...last Winter Games too provided a perfect illustration of the struggle: Katarina Witt, the self-styled "worker's hero" from Karl-Marx-Stadt in East Germany, vs. Debi Thomas, the all-American Stanford premed student. In the left corner, a communist figure skater who lived like a princess and had been trained since infancy to go for gold; in the right, a determined young black woman who had overcome hardship to chase her dream. In the middle, the opera both chose as accompaniment was Bizet's tale of the working-class heroine, Carmen. Who could not see their rivalry...
...that grew out of skating on frozen ponds and swamps, where the ice was black and people could trace their names -- or grapevines or Maltese crosses -- on a winter evening. Those innocent exercises gradually evolved into amateur competitions in which painfully exacting school figures counted for much of a skater's score, the rest being determined by the more spectacular free skating...
...Russian government abolished the giant, anachronistic Soviet State Committee for Physical Education and Sport, leaving thousands of athletes and coaches without the managers and financiers who ruled their lives for decades. "We have such limited resources, even for training on ice," says Marina Pylaeva, a Russian speed skater. "We had to work out carefully how much we could do with the money...
Established in 1970 by skater John Misha Petkevich, then a junior at Harvard, An Evening with Champions, one of the largest annual contributors to the Jimmy Fund, has raised cumulatively over 1.25 million dollars. For the past two years, the show has raised as much...