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...hours of the morning, when most human beings are still in bed recovering from a post-party hangover, figure skater Paul S. Wylie '90 is practicing one triple jump after another on the ice at the Boston Skating Club...
...Wylie runs through the difficult program which he will unveil at the International SkateAmerica Competition this week, the fourth-ranked male figure skater in the country moves gracefully around the rink, his quick athletic body becoming a colorful blur against the chilly drabness of the skating club walls...
...fact, Wylie is currently the only male skater among the nation's top 10 who competes on the amateur level and attends college full-time. And he lives in Canaday...
Wylie is not the first skater to both compete regularly and attend classes at Harvard. While living along the river, Dick T. Button '52, somewhat of a legend in men's figure skating, held five major figure skating titles in 1949 simultaneously--including medals at the Olympics, World, National, North American and European competitions. Radcliffe captured its own share of skating glory when Tenley Albright '57 captured her fifth consecutive National Ladies' Title and second Olympic Gold Medal in 1956. Both of these Olympians naturally spent much of their time shuttling between the Yard and the historic Boston Skating Club...
...Dick Button was way ahead of his time," Wylie, his modern successor, says. "He was doing triple axels before people were doing all of the double [axels]. (A triple axel, by the way, is an ice skating maneuver in which the skater jumps off a single blade and completes two and one-half revolutions in midair before landing backwards on a single blade...