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Hughes didn't just skate flawlessly. She became the first woman to land two triple-triple jump combinations--the triple Salchow-triple loop and the triple toe-triple loop--in one program. Even more impressive, she is the first skater to fight her way from fourth after the short program to first overall. "It was my greatest skate ever, and it was great that it could happen in my Olympic long program," she says...
...fact, it's unlikely to happen again. No other skater--in women, men, pairs or ice dancing--has ever made up so much ground at the Olympics. Too much has to happen. Given the contorted mathematics that is the skating judging system, it was not enough for Hughes to win the long program, which she did handily. Kwan, the initial leader, also had to finish third. So it was the final skater, Slutskaya, who would determine all. Barring a once-in-a-lifetime score of her own--unlikely, since her program was not as well constructed as Hughes'--her performance...
...could say Gene was a football player and Astaire, maybe, a tennis star of the Bill Tilden era. But who knew whether Astaire had biceps? Was there even a body inside those elegant clothes? If there was, it Astaire seemed relaxed; Kelly?s body was tense, like an Olympic skater planning the big jump and knowing how much was at stake, how much to be lost. Astaire, who never appeared to entertain the possibility that he could lose, had a magnificent diffidence, polar opposite to the neediness Kelly suggested. Gene?s trademark - the outstretched arms, grasping for a connection with...
...Canadians had endured a miserable Olympics before the nation’s double success in ice hockey. Heavily favored speed skater Jeremy Wotherspoon collapsed under pressure, turning in two dismal performances and returning home without a medal despite his status as defending World Champion. Canada had half as many medals as the U.S., despite being our neighbors to the north—where it’s colder. Ice hockey was invented in Canada. It’s the only sport Canadians play. Let them have their golds. It means more to them that it would...
...record 32 sec. That event, the men's equipment-tampering relay, was won by North Korea's team in a dramatic upset over highly favored Iraq. The North Koreans had broken into the wrong locker room, lost their tools and failed to sabotage the blade of a single U.S. skater. Only a brilliant come-from-behind cash bribe in the final minute allowed them to eke out a perfect 100-point score. Meanwhile, allegations that he had been pressured to commence the cheating games without informing the teams of several participating nations were immediately confirmed by the Cheating Sports president...