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Figure skaters can only wish for a competition as clean as a clock. The complaints over judging this time ran from Canadian Gary Beacom, declaring, "We're not trained monkeys, we're human beings," to American Michael Seibert, murmuring, "It hurts when it's your only chance for an Olympic medal." Partly because of the music they skated to, Seibert and Partner Judy Blumberg finished fourth, behind two sets of Soviets and the elegant British dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean...
...perfect 6.0 scores in the compulsory dance from three judges, two of whom were not the costume designer who dresses Torvill and Dean. Nobody denies that they are the best-or that the judges know who is supposed to be the best. The U.S. couple, Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert, stood third, as expected...
...American pair, Peter and Kitty Carruthers, have a chance to win a medal. If Ice Dancer Michael Seibert has fully recovered from mononucleosis, he and Partner Judy Blumberg could do better than that. Ice dancing is less dangerous (no throwing one's partner) but requires as much practice, more than Seibert's illness has permitted. In an intriguing adaptation of Professor Harold Hill's "think" system, Seibert and Blumberg have been practicing in their minds. "Sounds crazy," she says, "but it works." At Salt Lake City, his stamina was fine, and their winning performance was beautiful...
...pretty hand to work on that schedule," Blumberg said But like everything she you get used to it" The dance couple works more on acting and presentation. Seibert and Blumberg do their own choreography with some assistance from an American Ballet members and their coach in London...
Both see a limit to their skating careers, and are already looking forward to alternatives Blumberg has two years of college credit towards a degree in special education, and Seibert wants a career in fashion design, an area he has dabbled in by de signing the pair's costumes. "We both decided that our careers could wait for skating," she said...