Word: ices
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Competing for France, though the two were % raised in Quebec, they skated -- quite literally -- to a different drummer. Shrugging out of classical ballroom-style routines, the Duchesnays performed a savage rite to the primitive rhythms of tribal drums. Like Torvill and Dean, the Duchesnays nudged the rigid rules of ice dancing, maintaining a single mood throughout their routine. (Not surprisingly, Dean was their choreographer.) The audience roared its approval, but the judges were unusually divided, their scores ranging from 5.0 to 5.8. Other skaters rallied to the Duchesnays' defense. "We're a little braver and ready to be innovative...
...born, then in Champaign, Ill., where the family moved when the future Olympic champion was two. The story is often told that Charlie Blair received word of the birth of "yet another skater" over the public address system at the local rink. Bonnie the tot first ventured onto the ice with her shoes inside the smallest pair of figure skates her mother could find. "Skating was always part of our lives, and of course it became part of Bonnie's," says Eleanor Blair...
...contract with Disney World, and other commercial deals are sure to follow. Success is unlikely to spoil the engaging Midwesterner with the toothy grin. She plans to go back to school soon and get a degree in physical education. But before that, she has one more goal on the ice. "I still think the 500 can be done in under 39 seconds," she says. "I'd like to be the first to prove...
...many images, so many of them conflicting. America's gold-medal speed skater, Bonnie Blair, 23, was the picture of invulnerability or delicacy, depending on whether she was all packed up in her peppermint suit, streaming across the ice, or her hair was falling down afterward in curls. (It's the color of maple syrup in the morning.) "I'm just a person who likes to chase someone," she said in a voice that sounded too small for a champion of the world, 5 ft. 5 in. tall...
...example of a warm Calgarian, a grandmother named Jean Newsted, came scurrying along with a loom in one hand and a nervous-looking rabbit in the other. Just then the Soviet silver-medal ice-dancing team of Sergei Ponomarenko and Marina Klimova materialized by the happiest chance. Hastening up to them, Newsted explained through a handy interpreter that she was a weaver of Angora fur and had been so taken with Ponomarenko and Klimova's performance that two of her rabbits now bore their names. In fact, here in her arms was Benjamin Sergei. It is difficult to describe...