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...flexible Sasha Cohen, left, dips forward in a textbook Charlotte spiral while skating backward with her legs in perfect vertical alignment. Michelle Kwan does her own version of the Charlotte, as well as a signature change-of-edge spiral sequence that almost takes her from one end of the rink to the other...
...unexpected when a twenty-first birthday party was interrupted by Daniel Weinstein ’03-’04 competing in the short-track speed skating race. I did find it a little odd that despite my never having set foot on an ice skating rink or anything more difficult than a green square mountain, I’ve been this deeply enthralled with events from snowboarding to the skeleton...
...asked for skating lessons. At first I traveled to New Jersey on the bus at night after school to get to an ice rink. I went through a series of teachers and finally ended up with one of the greatest trainers in the world, Pierre Brunet, who had trained Olympic medalists. Eventually I started to compete...
...know what we have to do,” Smith said after the team practiced yesterday at a small rink on the University of Utah campus. “Hard feelings aside, we’re the world champions representing the United States in our home country. We’ll do what we need...
...Here's the scene: The interview area of the Utah Olympic Oval, downstairs from the speedskating rink, where the press waits for athletes and coaches to emerge from their events and talk (or not) to waiting reporters, producers and broadcasters. A metal barrier stands between the reporters and the competitors' pathway - a separation that just barely keeps athletes from being mauled. If there ever was such a thing as decorum among the press, it's shot to hell the minute a hot interview subject comes into the room...