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Yeah. And good luck to Michelle Kwan, Tara Lipinski, Nicole Bobek and the rest...
...facing fears and learning how to deal with things and just really loving what she does," said Lipinski. "For me, that's my skating." She fought to hold on to her landings and battled back for the silver--and another run at Kwan in Nagano. Bronze winner Nicole Bobek, 1995's National champ, will round out a formidable ladies' team...
DIED. CARLO FASSI, 67, coach who guided Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, John Curry and Robin Cousins to Olympic gold medals; of a heart attack; in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he was accompanying his current skaters, including American Nicole Bobek, at the World Figure Skating Championships...
...championship in Providence offered an exciting competition among closely matched athletes, but the level of performance was only mediocre. In the post-Kerrigan era, Bobek would appear to have an advantage because she is a true show skater who makes a big, jazzy impression whether or not the details fall into place. Last week they did; she made fewer mistakes than Michelle Kwan, 14, who was favored...
...Bobek has sexy good looks, a smile that reaches the rafters and a playful way with music. She choreographs her own material-sort of. "I get the idea of what she does, memorize it and then teach it back to her," says Richard Callaghan, her eighth coach in as many years. A tantalizing combination of child and woman, Bobek can bat her eyelashes like a vamp and then screw up her face like a self-conscious kid. Her devil-may-care approach to training has blocked her progress for years. But with the Detroit-based Callaghan, she has settled down...