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...been the road to the top for 18-year-old Kriistina Wegelius, in Boston this week for her first appearance in Eliot House's Jimmy Fund benefit, An Evening With Champions. Since she left her home in Helsinki, Finland three years ago to begin intensive training in Denver, Colo, Tintti, as her friends call her, has lived the life of an ice skating addict...
Under the tutelage of Carlo Fassi, the Italian who coached Dorothy Hamill and John Curry to zeniths on the ice, Tintti has gained a mastery of compulsory figures and a style and grace that have moved her very much into the international picture in Senior Ladies competition...
...Simple, Tintti says. "There still isn't much figure skating in Finland. Hockey is the big sport there. It's like football in America, and it takes up all the ice time...
...after spending her earlier years--she started skating when she was six--fighting the slapshots for ice time and training in Copenhagen and Switzerland during the summers, Tintti headed for Colorado, the center of American figure skating...