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John Misha Petkevich '71, a favorite for the world men's figure skating title, found himself a disappointing fifth as the championships completed their first day in Lyons, France...
Yesterday's events consisted of the first four of six figures. The last two, the most important and most heavily weighted, will be completed tomorrow. The free skating, Petkevich's specialty, will be held Thursday and counts 50 per cent of the skaters' total scores...
Last year Petkevich beat Nepala in the free skating and finished second to champion Tim Wood for a fifth place overall...
Skating to the Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto. Petkevich had to alter his routine on the ice when the record missed and cut out some 12 seconds of music. Taking out two planned triple jumps, he made the transition so smoothly that the mistake did not keep one judge from awarding him a perfect 6.0 for composition and style. Five judges gave him 5.9 and the seventh...
...Petkevich completely over-shadowed second-place Ken Shelley, and sixteen-year-old Gordie McKellan, who came in third. Petkevich won all seven first place votes in the compulsories on Thursday and thirteen of the fourteen votes cast in "Technical" and "Composition and Style" Friday...