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At last month's U.S. national championships in Orlando, Fla., Harding was several pounds overweight, and she sustained an ankle injury in practice. But with typical grit she stuck to her program, which includes a triple Axel, a 3 1/2-revolution trap of a jump that only Ito and she have...
Ervin was competing in the strongest field of U.S. skaters since 1956, when the Olympic women's team was Tenley Albright, Heiss (both future gold medalists) and Catherine Machado. This year's trio could sweep the medals, as they did at last year's world's championship in Munich. If...
Tonya Harding has not been as consistent a performer as Ito, but they have a lot in common: ice is native ground to both, and they take to it without fear. Harding's story is a rare one: she is a scrappy kid from the wrong side of the tracks...
Figure skating is not really a rich man's sport. Most families of successful competitors have had to make sacrifices and seek outside help. But skaters usually have backgrounds more stable than Harding's. Her father, a laborer, was her mother's fourth husband; there have been two more since...
They are at their most beautiful, these rarefied athletes, in the six-minute practice session where competitors warm up, a few at a time. Done by a Kerrigan, the waltz jump, a mere half revolution, is a perfection of grace. A double Axel is clear and open, not the whipped...