Word: quaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month Leaver announced that Boitano would not try the jump for which he is best known, the quadruple toe loop, at the Olympics. Never performed successfully in competition, the quad has become the slippery grail of skating. Boitano practices it daily and hits almost 100% of the time. But in competition, he has thrown it -- and blown it -- four times, most noticeably at the 1987 world championship. Leaver sees little point in risking another disaster when Boitano already has what is considered the most technically difficult program ever and can score 6.0s without the quad. Boitano finds...
...Canadian Brian also has a quad in his arsenal, but he too plans not to deploy it in the Saddledome. "My program was set in September," says Orser, 26. "I can't have any doubt or question whether I'm going to do a triple or a quadruple in one spot." Orser's confidence will be the key to whether he triumphs or stumbles. Although he has had a lock on the Canadian title for eight years, he has often been an also-ran at the international level. After taking the silver medal at the 1984 Olympics, just behind America...
Maybe following Budapest, those barriers will come down. The Hungarian capital will be the host for the 1988 world championships -- and a quad perhaps? -- just four weeks after the Olympic Games. Then both Brians intend to retire from amateur skating. Is there life after 6.0s? Orser already co- owns a restaurant in a Toronto suburb and is planning a second this year. Boitano (surprise! surprise!) also wants to go into the food business. His dream is to open an Italian restaurant in San Francisco, some place where he can satisfy his constant craving for pasta. Both Brians will have...
...with the switchover in leadership at Radcliffe, it is also a good time to cut a lot of the red tape left by the semi-merger plan. It was illogical that plans for Quad repairs had to be delayed so they could pass through two bureacracies--Radcliffe's and Harvard's. And it is unfortunate that female admits to the College receive letters accepting them to Radcliffe, but not even mentioning Harvard...
...honesty, levity aside, the Quad Ice Project is well worth a visit. While the steel poles and wire mesh may not be to everyone's liking, the ice itself is of truly breathtaking beauty. Michael Van Valkenburgh has created an environment in which it is impossible to ignore what is so easily ignored: the very essence of the beauty that is winter...