Word: skater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left wing secured 40 tickets for his friends and family and the Armstrong clan had a big night at the rink planned, because Armstrong's sister, a champion teenage figure skater, was scheduled to perform between periods of the game...
...Connie Carpenter, 27, a former U.S. amateur speed skater and the 13-time national women's cycling champion, retired from cycling in a country that paid little attention to and even fewer dollars for training. Then in 1981, hearing that for the first time a women's road race was scheduled for the Olympics, Carpenter returned to training for what she called "the one last race of my life." Last week, exhausted and just meters from the end, she lunged her bike, like a kid jumping a curb, to victory only inches ahead of Teammate Rebecca Twigg. With...
...played a heck of a game up there," Cleary said.... Busconi is the only Crimson skater with double digits in the goals column. He has tallied 12. Eight members of last year's team scored 10 or more goals.... Kukulowicz is this year's enforcer, with 21 penalties for a total of 50 minutes. Visone ranks second on the boo-boo list, with 16 penalties for 35 minutes. No other Crimson player has spent more than 20 minutes in the sin bin.... The ECAC Final Four, always a hot ticket, could boil over this year. With three of the four...
...nights later, a different Italian judge appeared to make amends by leaping .3 of a point above the rest of the judges in her marks for Tiffany Chin in the women's short program. But then, two can play that game: the American judge bottomed out an Italian skater's average and, more egregiously, placed Katarina Witt, who won the short program with an incandescent performance, .3 of a point below the judges' average...
...Witt, the arguments ended, for here was a skater of both athletic power and aesthetic sensibility. She has a natural fizz that makes the efforts of most others look labored. In fact her coach, Jutta Muller, is a stern drillmaster who is accustomed to Olympic triumph: her daughter Gabriele Seyfert took the silver medal in 1968, and Anett Poetzsch, another pupil, was the Lake Placid gold medalist...