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American ice dancer Elizabeth Punsalan learned that last week, days before she left for Lillehammer with her husband and partner Jerod Swallow. Her father was stabbed to death in his Michigan home, allegedly by her mentally disturbed brother. Speed skater Kristen Talbot learned it when she risked her physical ability to compete by giving a bone-marrow transplant last Jan. 11 to her brother Jason, gravely ill with aplastic anemia. Luger Cammy Myler, already chagrined at the dislocated shoulder last September that dimmed her medal chances, felt her injury diminish in meaning when her brother and sporting mentor...
...Barcelona in 1992) and developed a dual role as reporter and logistics organizer. Says deputy chief of correspondents Paul Witteman: "Susanna has been our decathlete, mastering everything from telecommunications in Spain to computers in France to transportation in Seoul. She has reported from Odessa, Ukraine, about figure skater Oksana Baiul and from Copenhagen about the moves and moods of Torvill and Dean. I first saw her in Calgary being hugged by stuffed bears, which were that year's Olympics mascots. Now we all feel the same way about...
...will walk away with the coveted gold medal? Oksana Baiul of the Ukraine? Surya of France? Or some other skater of similar ability? We must also acknowledge the possibility that the Clockemas County investigators might dig up enough evidence to indict Harding before she skates. The law could preclude her performance before she skates...
...Figure Skating Association has decided that Tonya Harding must face disciplinary proceedings in the attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan. The skater need not respond till after the Olympics, but the action could influence the U.S. Olympic Committee's decision on whether she will compete. Earlier, her ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, pleaded guilty to racketeering in the assault on Kerrigan and said Harding approved the attack in advance. She denies...
...Kerrigan Courage: Nancy's Story, anew paperback by Randi Reisfeld about the life ofthe skater, has been "selling well since it camein," according to Amanda Clarke, an employee atthe Harvard Book Store...