Word: sport
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...problematic. Today, however, the split personality is more fractious than ever. Skaters take sides. "Athletics in men's figure skating has been neglected," says World Champion Scott Hamilton. "Sure, there's some dance in it, but we have to be athletes first. They call it an Olympic sport, not an Olympic art, don't they?" The puckish young man is one of the most accomplished skaters in history, but his view runs counter to that of the Establishment. Since Lake Placid the sport's traditionalists have tried to curb daredevil virtuosity in the shows...
Hamilton still buys teeny shoes (size 51A) and clothes in boys' sizes, but his attitude toward his sport is grownup. "You live, you hope, for 100 years. You are only a top skater for ten. So that is the perspective." He knows that his insular, single-minded life has been severely Limiting...
...Carrutherses, brother and sister Peter and Kitty, may not be aiming quite so high, but the sheer pleasure they derive from the sport seems unsurpassed. The U.S. champion skating pair has never placed better than third in world competition. But Kitty adores Peter, he is reverent of her and both are dauntless performers. (Defying preposterous odds, they are the separately adopted children of a Massachusetts engineer and a teacher; Hamilton too was adopted, also by teachers.) Skating pairs are a unique entity in sports, competing neither individually nor as members of a large team. Their event is all a matter...
...whom had hardly begun shaving four years ago, when Jim Craig, Mark Johnson and the rest were working their legerdemain at Lake Placid. But if any coach can reproduce a mir acle, Vairo, 38, may be the one: his own success story points to the moral that in sport, anything is possible...
Nelson, an erratic performer during his early days in the event, temporarily left the sport two years ago to develop his own sport-promotion business. "When you spend ten hours a day doing one thing," says the resident of Serene Lake, Calif, "there's not a lot left for finances, family or social life." But the competitive fire never died. The oldest member of the team returned this year with renewed dedication, fine-tuning his skis and firing 6,500 practice rounds. He continued rigorous training even when his father became terminally ill. "I'd like...