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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...
HARVARD GETS TO CHEER for many famous alumni in the public eye. Paul E. Wylie '91, who won the silver medal in men's figure skating last week, is one of them. Presidents, authors, musicians, philosophers, doctors and lawyers abound. But students don't often get to cheer our alma mater to the gold--or close to the gold...
...face-to-face with the three members of the United States hockey team--Ted Donato '91, Ted Drury '93-94, C. J. Young '91--who played for Harvard, and we bet they won't bad-mouth the efforts of student-athletes. Team U.S.A. didn't win a medal, but they got close and hurt more that a few people in the process...
...contrast, the pairs' competition was a skate-away as the two top couples performing under the Unified Team banner demonstrated what truly unified skating is all about. Natalia Mishkutienok and Artur Dmitriev captured the gold medal, flowing from one move to the next with such grace and precision that even two technical errors on her part did not detract from their artistry. It was the eighth consecutive win by a Soviet-trained pair. Now that state-sponsored training has undergone a meltdown in their homeland, there is a question whether this latest pampered pair will be the last...
Petrenko, 22, did not exactly stumble into his gold medal, but his long program was hardly the stuff dreams are made of. Early in his routine, Petrenko flailed his arms wildly to save a triple combination, then barely held on to a triple flip. From there he lost conviction, succumbing to his chronic habit of sagging in the final minutes. Wylie, by contrast, resisted his tendency to choke in major competitions and finally delivered a performance that enabled the judges to reward his brilliant artistry. A relative old man at 27, the gracious Harvard graduate capped his amateur career with...