Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Next year, it was. She made the Olympic team, and though 15 and frightened of the pressure and the presence of machine-gun-toting guards, she placed a respectable eighth at Innsbruck. She won the World Championship in 1977, a tiny (5 ft. 1 in., 97 lbs.) wisp of a girl who could whip through spectacular leaps and spins in the blink of an eye. Yet her skating never flowed with the liquid style of Peggy Fleming's; it flared in a series of brief, athletic explosions. Before one could count the spins, she was gone, halfway across...