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At the 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...
To the judges, Elvis sang Dylan: "Most likely you go your way (and I'll go mine)." "In my skating, the moves are from me," he says. "If I skated like someone else because I was told to, that would be plagiarism." Stojko and Leigh determined to work on speed...
While Leigh has tried to pump up the art in Stojko's martial artistry, it's still the extraordinary jumping that sets Elvis apart. When he attempts his quadruple-toe-loop, triple-toe-loop combination, he revs his speed dramatically, launches, spins four times in the 0.77 of a second...
There's increasing applause for Elvis' brand of skating and not just from the awestruck audience. "I think the men's competition should be judged an athletic event," says 1988 gold medalist Brian Boitano. "When you have so much athletic ability, you don't have time to be artistic, and...
As for Elvis, he'll be Elvis--in spades. Just watch him open the show. His short program is to the pulsating rhythms of Japanese ceremonial taiko drums--what else?--as he not only plays the home card but also gets to indulge his samurai soul thoroughly. The first 45...