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Wylie admits, however, that during his years of concentrated training, many of his skating friends became companions off the ice. "I remember Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner [former National and World pair skaters] took me to my first ever rock concert when I was fourteen and got me totally wasted. I got really sick and everything. It was kind of funny...
Considering that their sport, or art, is based on stability, skaters' emotions seem as fragile as snowflakes. Many of the participants appear as softly vulnerable as the star-crossed couple of Lake Placid, Randy Gardner and Tai Babilonia. Something at the base of this light and lovely sport is dark and disturbing. At tender ages, children by the pair are instructed how to hold on to each other as intimately as a man and woman, to hang on for dear life and try not to fall. When dropped, they shatter. Olympic athletes in almost all of the various sports heed...
...show has drawn big-name skaters over the years, including Dorothy Hamill, Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, and John Curry. From being patched together in ten days by Petkevitch alone in 1970, it has turned into a full-scale operation with a crew of more than 30 Eliot House volunteers. It has raised close to $250,000 for the Jimmy Fund since its inception...
...Muhammad Ali really going to fight John Anderson? Since Anderson has refused to fight unless Marvin Hagler is present as third man, the League of Women Boxers may substitute Tai (one-two) Babilonia or Nancy Reagan...
Your report from Lake Placid [Feb. 25] was exciting, balanced and moving. Despite organizational and political problems, the surprise of Leonhard Stock in the downhill and the withdrawal of Gardner and Babilonia in pairs are poignant examples of the drama only the Olympics can produce...