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...rink at Albertville was the scene of powerful grace and perfection all week long. But the best and most innovative skating of the Olympics came in the earlier ice-dancing competition. The Unified Team's Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko took the gold decisively with a bold, sexy program, while France's celebrity couple, Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay, were somewhat off form and had to settle for silver. Maia Usova and Alexander Zhulin, also from the Unified Team, skated lightly and impudently to the bronze...
Time takes its toll on everyone in these Games, especially the ones in the stands: on the ubiquitous mothers recalling 5 a.m. drives to the rink and on the spectators who stop breathing while they wait for a figure skater to land. The fans of Franz Heinzer, the great favorite in the downhill, stomped, rang bells and waved heraldic banners when their Swiss hero hit the slopes; less than two minutes later, their hopes were dead. When AJ Kitt came down the course, eight Americans huddled round walkie-talkies and urged him on, "Go, go, be aggressive, be aggressive. That...
...series of powdery bumps, periodically climbing these hillocks to leap off, flinging one's limbs spread eagle for a nanosecond or thrusting one's hindquarters left and right during a fleeting free fall. Skating at breakneck pace in a roller-derby throng around the perimeter of a hockey-size rink. Scuttling along a sheet of ice, brushing away bumps with a broom to clear the path of a flat, slow-moving stone. Or ducking one's head, bracing one's breakables and trying to hurtle faster than a sports car down a short stretch of sheer slope, sans turns, sans...
...sense? Sort of. Hockey has become globalized in the past decade, and traditional lines of demarcation have become ever more blurred. As players from Europe moved to the N.H.L. and players from North America immigrated to the European leagues, styles began to blend. The international game, played on a rink that is as much as 30 ft. wider than an N.H.L. rink, rewards players who skate and pass well. Enter the Swedes, who are grace epitomized. But as Team Sweden swept effortlessly to early victories, they displayed newfound passion for knocking their opponents into the boards. Swedish coach Conny Evensson...
...rink attendant forgot to open Harvard's locker room, forcing the game to start later than expected, and very slow ice kept the pace and intensity level at a minimum...