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...kiss-and-cry" area afterward, Galindo, Laura and his friend, choreographer John Brancato, exulted, hugging, weeping, leaping around. It looked as if they already knew he had won. But the champ describes three distinct stages of elation: first, when he was sure he had skated well enough to make the world team; second, when the first of two perfect scores of 6.0 was flashed; third, when the computer pushed his name up to first place...
This year Galindo, 26, is staging his own ultimate push. He was the surprise winner at the nationals, held in January in his hometown of San Jose, California. For him and his sister Laura, who is his coach, confidant and No. 1 fan, it was sweet vindication. Next week he wants to build on that victory by winning the world title in Edmonton, Alberta...
...truth, no matter how spectacular Galindo is in Canada, it will be tough to match his triumph before the home folks. It was one of those ineffable moments when the audience sensed almost from the start that this athlete is triumphant, truly unbeatable. He seemed to fly through the long program, set to the surging, romantic music of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Dick Button, the unflappable ABC commentator, shouted, "Now that's guts." His less experienced microphone partner, Brian Boitano, was reduced to giggles of delight. Ken Shelley, the last man to win the nationals in both single and pairs...
...Galindo also chanted four names: Jess, George, Jim, Rick. He is known as a hard-luck skater for good reason. Galindo has been a national winner previously, but as 1992 Olympic ladies champion Kristi Yamaguchi's pairs partner. In 1990, two years before they were to go to the Olympics, she told him she was devoting all her energy to solo competition. Galindo was upset, not so much for himself as for his father. Jess, a trucker, was in dire health at the time, and he told Rudy he was holding on to see him make the Olympic team. Says...
...Galindo had much more to deal with than himself. His pairs coach, Jim Hulick, had already died of AIDS, and his next mentor, Rick Inglesi, also became stricken with the disease. (He died last year.) Jess Galindo eventually succumbed to a heart attack in 1993. Finally, Rudy's brother George, 10 years his senior, contracted AIDS. The period before George's death, also in 1993, was a parlous time for Galindo. "For eight months, I drove George to the hospital every day," he says. "I carried him to the bath and changed his diapers. I got numb...