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Wylie’s coach at the time, Mary Scotvold, credited his win to his ability to focus full time on skating after graduating from Harvard...
...Scotvold recalls her time working with Wylie, who she said was always juggling schoolwork with 30 hours of training a week at the Boston Skating Rink...
...planes, he always had his books with him,” Scotvold said. “It was a wonderful opportunity for him to go to Harvard, but it was like coaching somebody with your hands tied behind your back...
Maybe that's because, by his account, she has already made a haul in excess of $10 million, even though, in the opinion of her coach, Evy Scotvold, "she didn't come off looking very good" after making some "terrible mistakes." Scotvold says Kerrigan should have been home resting after the Olympics rather than coming off as bratty in public appearances she was too exhausted to make. He mentioned the infamous Disney parade in which Kerrigan shared a float with the famous rodent and accurately confided, "This is so corny...
Afterward, Kerrigan said, "For me, in my mind and my heart I won. I've learned a lot about myself these last couple of months. There are always some doubts, but I didn't let them enter this year." Others were not so restrained. Her coaches, Evy and Mary Scotvold, refused to utter Baiul's name at a postcontest press conference -- she was instead "the first-place girl." Claire Ferguson, president of the U.S. Figure Skating Association (U.S.F.S.A.), snapped, "Nancy doesn't have that sassy look that Oksana has." It didn't help matters that Baiul's coach, Galina Zmievskaya...