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...head. "Rarefied air." A prodigy, White would outrun the adults on Southern California's Big Bear Mountain--going backward. His consecutive 1080s (three complete rotations in the air, the toughest trick in the sport) secured his win last week. Afterward, White playfully set his sights on U.S. figure skater Sasha Cohen ("I hope she dates gold medalists") and talked of a rendezvous with the Summer Olympics if skateboarding, the other action sport in which he stars, ever gets a bid. ("I think Sasha would dig that...
...OLYMPICS FIGURE SKATER, AT YOUR SERVICE EMILY HUGHES could be the Cinderella of the Olympics. An alternate on the U.S. women's figure-skating team, the 17-year-old sister of 2002 gold medalist Sarah learned a day after Opening Ceremonies that she would get to go to the ball in Torino as a last-minute sub for injured Michelle Kwan. But even Cinderella started out by sweeping the floor. The price for Hughes' invitation to the Games? Being a mule for Russian rival and reigning world champion IRINA SLUTSKAYA, inset. The two share a New York City dressmaker...
...Italy until moving there in 2004, she says, but got her passport within five months. Changing nationality can have its drawbacks, however. About half of the world's countries do not recognize dual citizenship, so new citizens may have to surrender their old passports. Under Japanese law, pairs figure skater Rena Inoue, who moved to the U.S. seven years ago, had to give up her original nationality after becoming a U.S. citizen last year. "When I was trying to decide if I was going to go for it, that was the biggest worry," she says. Nor does swapping your nationality...
...PUTTING HER HEART INTO IT In a sign that the cold war has fully thawed, Russian ice skater Irina Slutskaya--who survived an enlarged heart--will compete while pitching for the American Heart Association's awareness campaign, Go Red for Women...
...Texas, Lonestar Rollergirls league are equal parts athletes and punk-feminist performance artists (with drag-queeny noms de skate like Venis Envy and Miss Conduct); they wear Catholic-schoolgirl skirts and fishnets and deal out bruising blows. "You can be completely feminine and athletic, threatening and sexy," says a skater of the sport's appeal. Gorgeously shot and structured like a drama, each episode delves into the lives of skaters, some fighting off demons, others blowing off steam. As their offtrack dramas climax on a sweaty track in an old airplane hangar, their cheesy competition becomes transcendent, just as good...