Word: skating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...focus in Saturday night's ECAC quarterfinal game between Harvard and Cornell was supposed to be the six Crimson skaters who, with a win or a tie, could be the second senior class in succession to skate off Bright Hockey Center ice for the final time knowing that they would see more collegiate action...
...know figure skate scoring," said Arthur Gondalfi a Grille patron and first year graduate student in economics. "It's scary...
...trust people, so I tend to bring a second pair [of blades] and put them on. I try to have sharp blades before I skate, and there really isn't anybody who can duplicate my grind...
Schrobsdorff may not have conquered the weather, but she is the nerve center for nearly everything else for our 11-person team in Lillehammer. She doesn't ski or skate, and she majored in English at Barnard before joining TIME's New York City news desk a decade ago. But she has covered Olympics both chilly (Calgary in 1988, Albertville in 1992) and steamy (Seoul in 1988, Barcelona in 1992) and developed a dual role as reporter and logistics organizer. Says deputy chief of correspondents Paul Witteman: "Susanna has been our decathlete, mastering everything from telecommunications in Spain to computers...
...this year all that gauze and grace will not conceal the fact that skating has been marred by the spectacle -- part crime show, part soap opera -- of Tonya Harding, her spooky husband and seedy associates all blaming one another for last month's attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan. Harding is determined to skate -- and by braving the court with her case has made sure that the U.S. team remains Harding and Kerrigan. Now, sports officials are looking for ways to have the star-crossed duo practice separately until the women's figure-skating competition begins next week. Otherwise...