Word: skating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When we play five-on-five, there are not too many teams that will be able to skate with us," Tomassoni said, "We showed tremendous discipline [Monday...
...charisma and career. "Michael's state of mind is good," Cochran says. "He'll be back in the recording studio soon." He will also participate in NBC's The Jackson Family Honors show on Feb. 21 -- an event that could lure more rubberneckers than a Tonya Harding free skate in the Olympics...
...things get out of hand, junior Bryan Lonsinger (1-3-4) is there to help straighten them out--his consistent hard hitting has shown league clubs that the Crimson can do more things than simply skate rings around them. You win with defense, and so far Harvard has done so on a regular basis...
...either Kerrigan or Harding does not skate for the U.S. Olympic team, the alternate is Michelle Kwan, only 13. As gold medalist and TV commentator Dick Button observes, she is already "beautifully put together," and she is equally adept at putting together her life. When her coach, Frank Carroll, advised her to spend another year maturing in the junior division, she waited until he went away for a few days, and successfully applied for senior status by herself. Placing second in the Nationals in Detroit two weeks ago was a triumph. On the ice she shows the kind of bravura...
...athletes in this charmed circle, it's a great life if you don't weaken. Dick Button marvels at the number of competitions (Skate America, Skate Canada, Piruetten), plus the tours that clog a skater's year. "The pressure is never off," he says, "especially in an Olympic year." Button is skeptical of the demands made by the three-month-long, 59-city Tom Collins tour (April 11 to July 12), but in fact this is the ambition of every first-class competitive skater. Collins, the impresario, picks mostly Olympic and national medalists, along with some other favorites...