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Skaters slated to perform in the November 1-3 exhibition include U.S. men's champion and world bronze medalist Brian Boitano, U.S. pairs champions Peter Oppegard and Jill Watson, and world pairs bronze medalists Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert...
...Winter Olympic Games remind us once again that there is no such thing as an impartial judge. Each brings his own prejudice and bias to the competitions, probably without realizing it. I hope that this country will somehow let Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert know that even though the bronze eluded them in their ice-dancing feats, they are brilliant gold to their countrymen...
...precisely the Blumberg-Seibert aggressive approach that put silver medals around the necks of the Carrutherses. For the first time in memory, or at least since the Soviets started competing in Winter Games, in 1956, there was no commanding partnership in pairs skating. The long reigns of the Protopopovs and Irina Rodnina and her succession of partners, Sergei Ulanov and Alexander Zaitsev, had come to an end. Since Lake Placid, several pairs had taken aim at one another, among them the Carrutherses, two Soviet pairs (Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, and Veronika Pershina and Marat Akbarov) and East Germans Sabine...
...Torvill and Christopher Dean, gave the Winter Olympics its first utterly flawless exhibition: nine perfect marks of 6.0 from nine judges. But Gary Beacom, a Canadian skater, became so enraged over his marks from the judges that he kicked the rinkside barrier. American Ice Dancers Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert likewise lashed out in frustration, though in words only, after seeing their hopes for a medal disappear at the whim of a single judge and her totally bewildering scores. Meanwhile, America's ice princess, Rosalynn Sumners, the reigning world champion, overplayed her penchant for femininity and had to settle...
...only other couple with similar ambitions were the Americans. Blumberg, 26, and Seibert, 24, chose to skate to Rimsky-Korsakov's lush symphonic suite Schéhérazade. Under the tutelage of Bobby Thompson, a British coach close to Torvill and Dean, the pair had revamped their style over the past two years. In 1983 the effort paid off with a bronze medal at the World Championships. They had come to Sarajevo with real hopes for a silver, but finished in fourth place after being marked down .3 of a point below the panel's average...