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...beach in Florida, strolling on a hot, muggy night in October. Her coach was nowhere in sight, but Michelle Kwan still had only one thing on her mind: skating. Very quickly she transformed the soft sand into an accomplice to ice. First, she turned one foot on its side and walked on it for a minute, then she switched to the other foot and did the same. There was a reason for the bizarre exercise, she explained to TIME. "Sometimes when you don't land a jump properly, even if you're a little crooked, you can still have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nagano 1998: Figure Skating: Michelle Kwan: Amazing Grace | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...karate and it's not Tae Kwan Do. It's a defensive position--hit and run," McCarthy said...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campus Spotlight: Services For Rape Counseling | 2/6/1998 | See Source »

Yeah. And good luck to Michelle Kwan, Tara Lipinski, Nicole Bobek and the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After The Glory | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...Kwan, in her wise-teen way, is looking beyond Olympic gold. "When I'm 80 years old and I look back," she says, "I want to see me. I don't want to see Salome [a role she once skated] or any other character but me." With a comeback dramatized by two transcendent performances last week, she got her wish, more than six decades ahead of schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nagano 1998: Figure Skating: Winter Of The Dueling Divas | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...about a young girl growing up and facing fears and learning how to deal with things and just really loving what she does," said Lipinski. "For me, that's my skating." She fought to hold on to her landings and battled back for the silver--and another run at Kwan in Nagano. Bronze winner Nicole Bobek, 1995's National champ, will round out a formidable ladies' team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nagano 1998: Figure Skating: Winter Of The Dueling Divas | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

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