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Rollerblading at breakneck speed down Newbury Street, Thomas as brought to a painfully abrupt halt when the door of a parked automobile swung suddenly open, placing a steel wall directly in his path. The 19-year old managed to escape massive injury by dragging one skate sideways behind him to slow down and breaking the inevitable crash with thrust-forward arms...
Surprisingly, many of the best skaters were newcomers. Thomas bought his first pair of blades eight months ago when he totaled his motorcycle ("I had no other way to get around," he explains), and 15-year-old Chuck J. Mello, the team's youngest member, learned to skate just five months...
Luke, who likes to skate in traffic ("It's the adrenaline"), says "I definitely think you should wear [a helmet]. I don't wear it myself, for aesthetic reasons...
...final round of the men's figureskating competition at the 1992 Winter OlympicGames, and Paul Wylie '91 had to skate theperformance of his life to win a medal...
Hockey players can be brutal on the rink, but at the bargaining table they have been the softies of the sports world. No longer: last week the N.H.L. Players Association voted 560 to 4 to stage the first major strike in the league's 75-year history. The skate-out occurred a week before the Stanley Cup playoffs -- the most lucrative games of the year -- were to begin...