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...list of champion skaters who will be appearing include Brian Boitano, the 1988 World and Olympic Men's Champion, Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini, the 1987 World Professional Pairs Champions, and Harvard's own Paul S. Wylie '90-91, 1988 U.S. Silver Medalist. For the 16th time, the Public Broadcasting network will run an hour-long special on the benefit. This year's television show is tentatively scheduled to air in December...
...Marden, the Olympic single scull silver medalist from nearby Concord, won the women's championship singles for the third year...
Andy Sudduth '83, who captured a silver medal in the single sculling in the 1984 Olympics, and Anne Marden, a silver medalist in women's sculling in Seoul, have entered the Regatta. Marden is the defending champion in the Women's Championship Single...
...smart money favors three entries: the Second Edition, a young, laid-back bunch from Louisville that placed second last year; the Chicago Chord of Trade, led by an ex-gold medalist who does his own arranging; and the Chiefs of Staff, another seasoned Chicago outfit, known for its consistency of tone. But no one is counting out the Chordiac Arrest from Northbrook, Ill., or the Inns 'n Outts from Houston. The contest will ride on style and panache and the electricity that each foursome can generate in the hall...
...year suspensions from play are the familiar furniture of contemporary sports competitions. In the 1983 Pan American Games, 19 athletes were disqualified and an additional dozen from just the U.S. track-and-field squad scuttled home before their events. In the 1984 Olympics eleven athletes, two of them medalists, were ejected from the Games for drug abuses. Before the Seoul Games began, several Americans, including '84 cycling gold medalist Steve Hegg and national swimming champion Angel Myers, were bounced for banned substances. But no disqualification has ever rocked the sporting world the way the Ben Johnson scandal...