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Wylie was met by his girlfriend, Kristin L. Brunner '94, and close friend David A. Roosevelt '93. Bronze medal winner Nancy Kerrigan, of Stoneham, Mass., returned on the same flight...
...Crimson gives yards of column inches to self-important, self-serving publicity hounds (e.g., Jamie Harmon two years ago and Brigid Kerrigan last year) but ignores the people who work hard and don't beg for attention...
...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 landed in competition. In the short program she fell. In the long program, she tumbled again and lost any chance of catching Kerrigan. Was she foolhardy to try? Maybe, but she gave notice that, win or lose, she means business...
...ladies, Nancy Kerrigan is the closest to having a cult. Purists love her. She does graceful jumps, finishing them with an open, ample spread of her arms. She doesn't have a triple Axel and doesn't jar judges or spectators by trying one. She just skates as if annealed to the music. In some respects she is a throwback to Peggy Fleming, who gave the impression that she would skate with exactly the same purity if she were alone on a pond. To Kerrigan, the great advantage of her elevated status is that she usually gets to practice...
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-up whir that a triple must be. Yamaguchi and Harding may land perfect leaps in tandem, a few feet apart on the ice. All the women are intently absorbed, and their jumps look less like stunts than whitecaps bubbling out of waves. To a purist, Ito and Harding may lack...