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...playoffs go to seven, we'll be there. Roger Clemens and Mike Witt at Fenway Park, the American League pennant on the line and we'll be there, behind home plate...
...Jerry Witt of Andover, Mass., tried stuffing his egg inside a missile of Italian bread. "If it breaks, I'll make French toast," he joked. The egg broke...
...Katarina Witt, 18, it was a matter of gathering her efforts into a winning program, and after four years of international competition, she did it just in time to win the gold. Leggy, sexy, with a saucy smile that flirts with the camera, Witt was the prettiest champion and one of the best. Indeed, Witt may be the synthesis of artist and athlete that women's skating has so badly needed in recent years. Until her Olympic appearance, one ideal had been sacrificed to the other. But grace and athleticism are not mutually exclusive, as Witt convincingly proved...
...Witt, the arguments ended, for here was a skater of both athletic power and aesthetic sensibility. She has a natural fizz that makes the efforts of most others look labored. In fact her coach, Jutta Muller, is a stern drillmaster who is accustomed to Olympic triumph: her daughter Gabriele Seyfert took the silver medal in 1968, and Anett Poetzsch, another pupil, was the Lake Placid gold medalist...
Chin was already widely touted as the winner in 1988. Small and fragile-looking, she skates with elegant ease and has some of Witt's knack of making the Axels and the Salchows look simple. She was the crowd's favorite, swirling and swooping through a move she has patented as the "Chin spin": stretching out to brush the ice with one hand while she whirls with one leg fully extended. After finishing second overall in the combined short and long programs, she is no longer a comer, but the star of a new generation...