Word: katarina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What Watertown residents Arthur N. Stokes, 32, and Katarina Markovic, 27, didn't plan for was that NATO would begin bombing the wedding location--Belgrade...
Figure skater KATARINA WITT, 32, is not known for being demure. Her interpretation of Carmen at the 1988 Winter Olympics turned the term ice queen upside down. But for years the East German skater has resisted Playboy's attempts to melt her remaining inhibitions. Until now. In its December issue, the magazine will feature a 10-page pictorial on Witt, stripped of skates, sequins and, yes, even her gold medals...
...dual pressures of being a kid and not being a kid. Carlisle explains that the lapse occurred "because she collapsed so many years of her childhood into a very short period of time." She knew she had a shot at winning another Olympic gold medal in 1998 (Katarina Witt and Sonja Henie are the only women singles skaters to win more than one), but amateur skating's regimen and multiplicity of rules left her chagrined. So did the grueling professional schedule. And her body was changing, no longer the poised pubescence perfect for jumps and axels. Relearning her balance...
...motion. Parents who live through their kids produce children who grow up feeling they have missed out on childhood, a time when play, pure and simple, with all its lively, unstructured freedom, should be paramount. "If a child is totally immersed in ice skating, she may become Katarina Witt, but what did she lose?" says Wetter. "I see lots of adults in treatment who say, 'I never had a childhood. I wanted to be a doctor, so I spent all my time at the library doing a biology project, but I never played soccer.' " You can chart...
DEBI THOMAS, 29; CHICAGO, ILL. U.S. and World Skating Champion In the 1988 Winter Olympics, Debi Thomas was America's favorite against the communist bloc's darling, Katarina Witt. Katarina claimed the gold. Debi stumbled and received the bronze. Though she competed professionally for nearly four more years, Thomas has chosen to pursue life outside the rink. She graduated from Stanford and is now a third-year medical student at Northwestern, planning to specialize in surgery. She has been married and divorced, has done broadcasting work and gives occasional motivational speeches. While medicine will consume her foreseeable future...