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...WHAT JUDGES LOOK FOR Anything, from skaters' costumes and facial expressions to their connection with the music and the audience, is fair game. Good use of the entire ice surface, with elements scattered around the oval, is also important...
...Although an Olympic gold was always a goal (along with place-kicking for the Green Bay Packers), FitzRandolph says, "I didn't know if maybe time was running out." For the last three years he has spent time in Canada, training at the Calgary Oval, and last fall completely left his teammates, "his support system", to train exclusively in Calgary. It was a move, he said, that could have worked either...
...Here's the scene: The interview area of the Utah Olympic Oval, downstairs from the speedskating rink, where the press waits for athletes and coaches to emerge from their events and talk (or not) to waiting reporters, producers and broadcasters. A metal barrier stands between the reporters and the competitors' pathway - a separation that just barely keeps athletes from being mauled. If there ever was such a thing as decorum among the press, it's shot to hell the minute a hot interview subject comes into the room...
...during the 1994 Winter Olympics, both were riveted by short-track skating, in which competitors race around a tiny oval in tight packs, with no marked lanes, at speeds of up to 35 m.p.h. It's human NASCAR. Ohno had already won a national in-line skating championship, but Rollerbladers don't compete for gold. So Ohno put himself on ice, and Yuki, happy to see his son inspired, shuttled him to lessons and meets...
...less effort to shout obscenities and badger fellow students than to lobby your member of Congress or petition the president? Certainly the loud and powerful voices of those in opposition to ROTC can be heard bouncing off the walls of University Hall, but are they heard reverberating in the Oval Office...