Word: skates
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...skate with the best once again," he said. "And I got to perform for my country...
...First, he lunged for the line, and grabbed the silver. Then, he had no complaints. "That's short track." Third, he congratulated Bradbury as the rightful winner. Fourth, he taped up his stitched-up leg - treated in the interim by none other than Eric Heiden, living speed skate legend and this year's team doctor - and proved that even this slacker generation can spit nails and get back on the track. Fifth, he smiled and kept smiling. Sixth, he was - very evidently and very consistently - completely genuine. This guy is Favre, he's Agassi, he's Tiger, he's Namath...
...Crimson tied the score less than a minute and a half later on what proved to be the game’s final goal. Working from behind the end line, Capouch fired a shot toward the front of the net that kicked off McKenna’s skate and into the cage to make...
...Skating was my life. My father, a Chinese-American immigrant who went to M.I.T. to do his graduate work, had learned to skate with his school buddies on lakes in China. Later, when we lived in New York City, he bought me a pair of skates one Christmas. He took me to Central Park's sailboat pond, and that was my first time ever on the ice. I fell in love with it--the speed, the flow, and the wind in my face...
While I was skating competitively, I was trying to get through school, first at Friends Seminary, then at Chapin, both very rigorous schools, and I was dancing at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet as well. I always seemed to be thrust into this world where the bar was so high. I am the first child in my family to survive, and a lot of pressure was put on me. I remember saying, "Mom, I can't compete if I'm skating half the time that other skaters skate." And she said, "Well, I don't really understand that...