Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Babilonia and Randy Gardner are like thunder and lightning put together-electric! Watching them skate makes you proud they're Americans...
...best U.S. hope for a U.S. figure skating gold medal after Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner dropped out was Linda Fratianne, 19, but she got off to a shaky start, finishing third in the compulsory figures. Fratianne complained that West Germany's Dagmar Lurz, who finished second, had been rated too high. "I went out and saw her third figure and the second circle of her loop was short, fat and off-axis," said Linda. Her coach, Frank Carroll, said irritably that "the judges always put Dagmar in there as a buffer between Linda and East Germany...
...Friday night that the Uncertainty Principle hit Tai Babilonia, 19, and Randy Gardner, 21, the world champions in the graceful art of pairs figure skating. Not only were the Americans still getting better, still adding to their repertoire of lifts and leaps, but they would be competing against the Soviet Union's husband-and-wife team of Irina Rodnina, 30, and Alexander Zaitsev, 27, who had taken the Olympic gold medal in 1976 and who had won six world titles. Last year, when Randy and Tai won the world championship, the Soviets were not competing; Irina was having...
...down again-a maneuver that was quick and forced and terribly ragged. Randy's face was drawn. Once more they talked with Nicks, then skated out to try a double axel. Three times they attempted the move, and three times Randy fell. The crowd watched in murmurous disbelief; Gardner does a double axel as easily as a man walks through a revolving door. He had not fallen out of a double axel in practice or competition in four years. A shock of bewilderment and concern passed through the arena. For two weeks, the pair and their coaches had harbored...
...most moving moment of the Games. Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner glided out to warm up for the pairs figure skating -and what they knew would happen did. In the second of his five spills (sequence at left), Randy lurches out of control, falls and spins, while Tai briefly maintains her elegant poise...