Word: rink
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victory was Harvard's fourthstraight win at Lynah Rink, and nudged Harvard into fourth place, just ahead of Cornell, in the Ivy standings...
...that with their gold-winning Olympic performance to Ravel's Bolero. Now come France's Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay, a sister-and-brother team as explosive and exotic as Torvill and Dean were cool and polished. If the British champions were elegance on ice, the French pair set the rink afire...
...days. Olympic organizers say they are prepared. "The first flake won't even have time to hit the asphalt," says Killy. "It will land on a snowplow." But a few minor accidents on the two-lane mountain roads that lead up to the ski runs, bobsled course and hockey rink could create gridlock in transporting the 2,300 athletes, 6,000 journalists and 800,000 spectators who are to start arriving this week. "If coordination doesn't improve, the Games will be a sizzling failure," warned Andre Baudin, mayor of Tignes...
...blanketed with garish billboards promoting Coca-Cola's Olympic sponsorship. Farmers' co- ops have stocked up on pine-tree honey in anticipation of record sales. Luxury hotels are booked solid with wealthy businessmen on promotional junkets. And in Albertville's Hall of Ice ("Don't call it a skating rink!"), volunteer tour guide Andre Cabot explains, "There's a grandeur to the Olympics. When it's all over, we'll say, 'How did we do it?' " A little Savoie-faire was all it took...
...some respects she is a throwback to Peggy Fleming, who gave the impression that she would skate with exactly the same purity if she were alone on a pond. To Kerrigan, the great advantage of her elevated status is that she usually gets to practice on an empty rink. "You can get artsy and try things out," she says. "Maybe what you really want is to show the music off." Spoken like an artist...