Word: ices
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ladies' field can match Lipinski's reliability on those tricky triple jumps. A particularly difficult combination, the triple loop-triple loop, is now a trademark of hers. She has improved her speed and coverage of the ice considerably since last year by trying to match her training partner (and U.S. men's national champion) Todd Eldredge stroke for stroke around the rink. That is no easy task, since at 5 ft. 8 in. Eldredge stands a good foot taller. Now that she is an Olympian, Lipinski says, "I just want to have fun, enjoy the experience and do the best...
Lipinski's artistry is still nascent, and in that way she is where Kwan was about four years ago. Then Kwan was a ponytailed girl who could not believe people were actually interested in what she had to say. Now she rules the ice. Her skating has a light, effortless quality that transcends the mechanics of the sport and its often rote choreography. She feeds off the power of her music, using the swells and dips of the notes to guide her movements and propel her spins and jumps. "The skating quality she has achieved--her edge, her body line...
...wasn't rocking 'n' rolling that caught young Elvis' attention. "It was spinning," he says. "I saw all this spinning on TV, and I started tugging on my parents to take me skating. When I got on the ice, all I wanted to do was slide and spin and fall, slide, spin, fall." And soon, jump. From the first, Elvis was a jumping machine...
...FRIDAY Hockey's "Dream Teams" will take to the ice as the U.S. and Sweden face off. America's world-class luge pairs (Grimmette and Martin, Sheer and Thorpe) will see action...
...SUNDAY Two-man teams will bob for gold, while ski jumpers move to the big hill. Russia's Grishuk and Platov will try to become the first ice dancers to repeat as Olympic champs...