Word: poetzsch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both athletic power and aesthetic sensibility. She has a natural fizz that makes the efforts of most others look labored. In fact her coach, Jutta Muller, is a stern drillmaster who is accustomed to Olympic triumph: her daughter Gabriele Seyfert took the silver medal in 1968, and Anett Poetzsch, another pupil, was the Lake Placid gold medalist...
...high. "I went out and saw her third figure and the second circle of her loop was short, fat and off-axis," said Linda. Her coach, Frank Carroll, said irritably that "the judges always put Dagmar in there as a buffer between Linda and East Germany's Anett Poetzsch, so that Linda has to come from behind to win." A two-time world and four-time U.S. champion, Fratianne is an excellent but vaguely apprehensive skater; she has only rarely been able to disperse the little cloud of worry that hovers over her performances. She had come to Lake...
...Fratianne lost her title to East Germany's Anett Poetzsch, 19. In 1979 Linda regained the title, having stretched her style and slowed it somewhat in an effort to infuse her routines with the grace that had been lacking. She got a new hairdo, a nose job to repair the deviated septum that impaired her breathing, and checked in with Pat Collins, the Hip Hypnotist of Sunset Boulevard, to learn "positive reinforcement self-hypnosis." She gets up at 6:30 a.m. six days a week to travel to a rink near her Northridge, Calif., home for practice. She takes...
...will never be a classically elegant skater: her body is too small for the sculptured reach that accents the intricacies of the tricks she performs. But she will always be lightning fast and agile. Says she of what will be her last Olympic meeting with Poetzsch: "I'm glad it's in the States. I'll feel more comfortable. But it's hard going in as the favorite. The underdog has it easier, nothing to lose and a lot to gain. If I can just realize that the world doesn't end if I have a silver...
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