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...field four years before they were expected to claim dominance. Lillehammer was heralded as the final showdown among veteran champions. Instead they fell away, and the gold went to Russia's 20-year-old Alexei Urmanov, a fledgling classicist who was not tipped to win anything. The silver skater was an aerial whiz from Canada, Elvis Stojko, 21. Philippe Candeloro, 22, a blithe and showy Frenchman, took the bronze after an incendiary program to Godfather music ended with a fall on a triple Axel near...
Candeloro fancies himself a young Corleone. His approach to a program is freer-than-freestyle, and he is the most crowd-pleasing male skater to come along since Browning, radiating a cheeky sense of the ridiculous. At one point Candeloro's answering-machine tape told callers to leave a message because he might be with a beautiful young woman. At the moment he sports a tiny cross in his ear, "so small," he says with relish, "the judges...
...Hockey's out," Ponusuk said. "[Speed skater]Dan Jansen's done. She's all that's left...
...just here to see the French skater, [SuryaBonaly]. She's going to bring the only gold medalthis year," Schneider predicted, inaccurately...
...think she skated beautifully," said formerfigure skater Sara Mulholland '95. "And now Nancyand her good friend Paul Wiley ['91] each havesilver medals to share...