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He's 25, collects stuffed animals and still lives at home, but he may be the toughest skater ever to enter the rink. He's tougher than Todd Eldredge, tougher than the Russians, tougher than Tonya Harding. Consider: the big rumor in Canada says that last summer Elvis Stojko, figure...
Elvis' fortitude is bred in the bones. His mother was the last of eight children in a Hungarian family, his father the first of nine in a Yugoslav household. They fled communist tanks in the 1950s, landed in Canada, met each other in Toronto and married. Upon the birth of...
It wasn't rocking 'n' rolling that caught young Elvis' attention. "It was spinning," he says. "I saw all this spinning on TV, and I started tugging on my parents to take me skating. When I got on the ice, all I wanted to do was slide and spin and...
But the boy's hero wasn't Scott Hamilton; it was Bruce Lee. Elvis earned an advanced black belt in karate at age 16, and while other skaters were bringing elegant dance moves into their choreography, he started incorporating punches and kicks. "I tried ballet," says Stojko unapologetically. "Didn't...
In a sport without a long tradition of martial-arts stylists, Elvis' very originality was a problem. The cabal of skating judges, clacking endlessly about athletes' clothes, musical tastes, hairstyles and breast sizes, looked at this karate kid with the shag and the metal-studded costumes--famously designed and stitched...