Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Someone should have told Witt. During Thursday night's short program, she placed herself ostentatiously at the rink's edge as Thomas deftly executed the seven required moves. "I was aware of it because she was standing right there," Thomas said. "Katarina watches all the time. Maybe she was trying to psych me out, but it doesn't work. It just makes me fight harder." That night Thomas nailed her performance, hitting every jump perfectly and engaging the audience with her megawatt smile...
...relatives in the crowd, it might as well have been a mile. Blair, 23, willowy but muscular at 5 ft. 5 in., had brought home the gold medal to the U.S. And she had recaptured her world record from Rothenburger, who had first taken it away on the same rink only two months before. But wait. That's not all. Later in the week Blair went flying around the rink again to win the bronze medal in a personal best time of 1:18.31 for the 1,000 meters. Only in Saturday's 1,500 meters did she fail...
...skates, first in Cornwall, N.Y., where Bonnie was born, then in Champaign, Ill., where the family moved when the future Olympic champion was two. The story is often told that Charlie Blair received word of the birth of "yet another skater" over the public address system at the local rink. Bonnie the tot first ventured onto the ice with her shoes inside the smallest pair of figure skates her mother could find. "Skating was always part of our lives, and of course it became part of Bonnie's," says Eleanor Blair...
Those who agreed with McGowan's charge pointed out that the Czech judge had given Thomas her lowest mark and that the East German and Soviet judges had given Witt her highest marks. Yet Witt's coach could also find reason to decry the skating rink's cold war: the U.S. judge gave Witt her lowest score, Thomas her highest. Anyone looking to prove that the voting always split along East- West lines, however, would run into uncomfortable details, such as the fact that Britain scored Witt higher than Thomas...
Vermont over Colgate, mini-game: Colgate's Wild Wayne Cowley has a car accident on way to rink. The Raiders suit up Rejean Boivin...