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...York Rangers' new coach, John Muckler, 63, is an old NHL hand, yet, when reporters asked him about one of his more enigmatic young stars, his reply--"I don't know Alexei Kovalev from a bale of hay"--seemed cockamamie. So, to be helpful, we hereby offer the following guidance to the Stanley Cup-winning coach...
...become camp spectacle. Perhaps as a corrective, the judges of the men's competition sent the message that skating is indeed still an earnest sport where fierce athleticism matters. In other words, yes, the much discussed quadruple jump counts. Of the top medal contenders, only two skaters, Kulik and Alexei Yagudin, also a Russian, attempted one, and only Kulik landed his: a perfectly executed quadruple toe loop...
...Albertville Olympics in 1992 Elvis skated well and finished seventh. At Lillehammer two years later, he skated brilliantly if insolently to music from Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. He got silver behind Russia's classically schooled Alexei Urmanov. Says Stojko's coach, Doug Leigh: "We were the only ones who skated a clean long and short program, and we came home with a dog bone...
...every judge's taste, the program will include Todd Eldredge, 26, the five-time American champ from Chatham, Mass., who is back on form after suffering shoulder and rib injuries but has yet to land a quad in competition; a pair of elegant young Russians, Ilia Kulik and Alexei Yagudin, exemplars of old-school, glamour-puss skating; and a sleeper. American Michael Weiss, 21, from Fairfax, Va., will hope that the big names crash and burn, and that he lands the viciously tough quad Lutz he two-footed while finishing second at the nationals last month...
...first day of the Games, David Robinson, the dignified Dream Teamer, was asked if the rest of the world was growing less awestruck of the American professionals. Yes, he said, "and our job is to re-create that awe." Carl Lewis did that in Atlanta, and Michael Johnson, and Alexei Nemov, and Deng Yeping. All Atlanta, no stranger to reconstruction, set about making the wonder feel young again...