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...only skate if there is 'black ice.' That's where the whole pond freezes completely through and then you can skate perfect figures. After I skate on it once, then it is no longer black ice because it has been marked up. I wait for it to completely melt and freeze again...
...best game in Washington this year hasn't been watching Bill Clinton try to skate free of scandal. It has been watching one member of the "permanent government" of lawyers and lobbyists try to decide whom it's more important to protect--the President or himself. Presidents come and go, after all, but the superlawyer at the heart of this game, Vernon Jordan, likes to think he's forever. So when the game got serious last week with (of course) a series of careful leaks from a lawyer close to Jordan, guess who came...
Going into the final 4-min. free skate, the message was clear: just rotating wouldn't be enough. Could Lipinski rise to Kwan's level of artistry? A judicial preference for maturity on ice certainly decided the bronze, claimed by the elegant Chen, 21. Bonaly, who might have been a contender, knew that judges have little appreciation for her muscular acrobatics. "The judges aren't pleased with anything I do anyway," she said. So, in her long program, she gave the judges figure skating's equivalent of the finger: an illegal back flip. Take that! It was a mandatory deduction...
...super-G win ("Isn't it neat!"), updated her Website at Surf Shack (one entry of Tara's Diary had six exclamation points in 11 sentences) and made stickers on the day of the finals. "I know when to relax," she said. "You don't just come here to skate, you come here to have fun too." She had seen the pressure undo her training pal, Todd Eldredge, at the men's finals. "She has her day structured," said her coach Richard Callaghan. "She is a giddy teenager between some hours, and she's a hard worker in other hours...
Next to him, Bart Veldkamp, who'd managed to break the Dutch monopoly only by switching nationality to become the Belgian team, said, "I was born in Holland, I skate for Belgium. But if you are looking at the moon and ask, 'Where do you come from?' I come from Earth...