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...Nowadays, no one can be a skater and go to college," he said. "I feel it is a great loss. For me, it was the perfect combination...
Button has kept himself busy since his days as an amateur skater. Once deciding to go pro, he skated with the Ice Capades...
...than usual. Skating to the sound track from the movie The Ghost and the Darkness, he seemed sapped and uninspired. The sport's most explosive jumper, he failed to awe the audience as he so often does. Although a master of the four-revolution jump (he was the first skater to land a quad-triple combination in competition), he couldn't muster the fortitude to show one off in Nagano. Moreover, he was sloppy in landing a triple loop, normally an easy move for him. Stojko had hoped to break the "Canada curse" and win for his country its first...
...through the long one. He turned two triple-triple jump combinations into triple-doubles, singled one triple Axel and fell while trying to insert another at the end. Watching the performance, his training partner and friend, gold-medal contender Tara Lipinski, nervously gripped the arm of U.S. pairs skater Jenni Meno. When Eldredge fell, Lipinski covered her eyes in sadness. "Nothing went all that great," he said later. "I'm disappointed. It took me six years to get here. Maybe I wanted the medal too badly...
...team that has the Olympics murmuring, "U.S. medals sweep." That kind of talk isn't, of course, going down well with other competitors. Russia's MARIA BUTYRSKAYA settled on her target a month ago, sniffing, "Lipinski made mistakes in many competitions this season. I am a good skater too." Last week at practice, Butyrskaya looked impressive. Among the Americans, however, it is Bobek who is vulnerable--but not just because Lipinski and Kwan are considered by most other skaters to be in a class of their own. "I think we'll win the gold and silver," says Rosalynn Sumners...