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...speed-skate like your brother...
Kerrigan's agent, who happens to be her husband, denied a published report that she was paid for the interview, saying she was paid only to skate, as were the other skaters. Jerry Solomon, who was 38 when he took on Kerrigan as a client at 23, married her after the Olympics and calls her one of his "strangest" cases--"Money doesn't motivate...
...remember her telling me, 'Katia, I hate it, I hate it. I never want to skate again,'" says Gordeeva...
...says. "It was horrible." She was depressed, confused and frightened. Barely out of puberty, "I had a gold medal. Millions. Too much too soon." She didn't have to work another day in her life, and that was part of the problem. If she didn't skate, which suddenly was the most awkward thing in the world, "then what am I supposed...
...hype about the quad rattled Eldredge. He opted for a skate on the wild side in the long program. Finding inspiration in the stirring strains of the Gettysburg sound track, he went for a quad toe loop, his first ever in competition. He landed on one blade cleanly--and fell. Weiss, who had stuck only 10% of his quad attempts in practice last week, remained a strong believer in the curative powers of adrenaline. In the long program, he attempted one of the hardest jumps, the quad Lutz. His landing was two-footed, but if the applause meter...