Word: ices
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some primal, half-forgotten place, however vigilant your defenses, throwing up simple human images of panic and delight and loss; and a huge, showy, zillion-dollar model of the family of man that, for all its state-of-the-art grandeur and planning, cannot outswerve a block of ice. It shouldn't work, but it does; things should work, but they don't. As the surprise U.S. silver medalist in the doubles luge, Chris Thorpe, said of his surprise bronze-medalist teammates, "They don't have great lines, they don't have great form. They just...
First, though, Lipinski had to survive the short program, a 2-min. 40-sec. contest in which one misstep, one deviation from the eight required elements can mean instant elimination. Nicole Bobek, 20, was out in under a minute: she hit the ice during her first triple Lutz and never recovered, taking with her the talk of a red-white-and-blue sweep. The world offered up its best--Russian siren Maria Butyrskaya, China's comeback kid Chen Lu and French wonder woman Surya Bonaly--but one competitor, Elena Sokolova, voiced what everyone knew: "It's really between Tara...
Going into the final 4-min. free skate, the message was clear: just rotating wouldn't be enough. Could Lipinski rise to Kwan's level of artistry? A judicial preference for maturity on ice certainly decided the bronze, claimed by the elegant Chen, 21. Bonaly, who might have been a contender, knew that judges have little appreciation for her muscular acrobatics. "The judges aren't pleased with anything I do anyway," she said. So, in her long program, she gave the judges figure skating's equivalent of the finger: an illegal back flip. Take that! It was a mandatory deduction...
America's gold-silver knockout, its first since the 1956 one-two scored by Tenley Albright and Carol Heiss, proved only that champions are formed in the most variable of circumstances. Lipinski and Kwan stuck to completely different schedules at Nagano, setting off rampant speculation about whose off-ice routine would triumph. Journalists handicapped the event in favor of Lipinski because she was so carefree and relaxed. She was all over the Olympic village, taking to dorm life faster than a pre-frosh. She celebrated Picabo Street's super-G win ("Isn't it neat!"), updated her Website at Surf...
...style of fluency and electrifying intensity that put many an NHL game to shame, as well as to such new words as "underwomanned." Though body checking is not allowed in women's hockey, it would have been hard to tell that to any of the bodies flying across the ice, while Maple Leafs clashed with Stars and Stripes all around the packed arena...