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Galluccio proposed the building of two public recreational facilities—a skate park and an outdoor ice skating rink...
Hughes didn't just skate flawlessly. She became the first woman to land two triple-triple jump combinations--the triple Salchow-triple loop and the triple toe-triple loop--in one program. Even more impressive, she is the first skater to fight her way from fourth after the short program to first overall. "It was my greatest skate ever, and it was great that it could happen in my Olympic long program," she says...
...trade on Hughes' technical skills, they opted to boost the difficulty quotient by adding the triple toe-triple loop combination. Hughes' comfort with the program showed in her confident execution of element after element. Her seemingly hopeless fourth-place position in the short program helped free her to skate with abandon...
...this was a hard defeat for the 21-year-old Californian, who won silver at Nagano in 1992. Her disappointment and surprise at finding herself with bronze this time was as deep as Hughes' ecstatic shock at having defeated her idol. Puffy-eyed from crying when she skated out to receive her medal, Kwan will now wrestle with the burden of dealing with an Olympic victory that has slipped from her hands not once but twice. "I just wanted to come home with the gold," she said immediately after the competition. "I have to remind myself to keep my head...
Even if Elaine Stritch had not set a new standard for the one-woman stage memoir, Arthur's look back at her career would be a lame specimen of the genre. Instead of a freestyle skate, Arthur settles for the compulsory short program: a once-over-lightly reprise of her hits from stage (Fiddler on the Roof, Mame) and TV (Maude, The Golden Girls); a funny anecdote about each of the famous people she's worked with (Lotte Lenya, Tallulah Bankhead); and stilted "extemporaneous" banter with her pianist, Billy Goldenberg. The audience leaves to the accompaniment of the theme song...