Word: skater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...felt nervous earlier in the day and, scared of getting an upset stomach, limited herself to a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich for lunch. But as she glided up to the starting line for the 500-meter sprint at Calgary's Olympic Oval, American Speed Skater Bonnie Blair felt confident, even though minutes earlier her rival, the powerful East German skater Christa Rothenburger, had set a new world record of 39.12 sec. Blair glanced at the stands, where a score of rooting family members were clustered around heartening banners (GO, BONNIE, GO). Moments later, she burst away from the line...
...daughters, it was the culmination of lifetimes spent on skates, first in Cornwall, N.Y., where Bonnie was born, then in Champaign, Ill., where the family moved when the future Olympic champion was two. The story is often told that Charlie Blair received word of the birth of "yet another skater" over the public address system at the local rink. Bonnie the tot first ventured onto the ice with her shoes inside the smallest pair of figure skates her mother could find. "Skating was always part of our lives, and of course it became part of Bonnie's," says Eleanor Blair...
Christine Burns: The closest thing the Crimson has to an enforcer, she has 22 penalty minutes this season, many of them coming from hard digging in the corners. Burns is the fastest skater on the second line. She often gets called on to play a late special-teams role. She will pair up with Char Joslin on defense if the other team pulls its goaltender...
...when you consider that Lane MacDonald, Allen Bourbeau, and Tim Barakett (last year's top three scorers) combined for 55 league goals. And despite the fact that no Harvard skater finished in the league's top 10 scorers, the Crimson still managed to pump in an average of four goals per game...
With three trips left to the mountain, regal Zurbriggen expects to rise again. On the Games' penultimate night, Figure Skater Katarina Witt will look to become the queen. At an audience that attracted the most notetakers of the week, the East German champion told her sweet stories in English and German: "I started skating when I was five years old, and my mummy went to the rink with me, and the coach put skates on me. It was quite wet on the ice . . . My mummy said, if I fall, my tights are going to get wet. So maybe that...