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...major disappointment was France's Surya Bonaly, who ended in fourth place. Her mighty jumps gave a vitamin shot to the proceedings, but she tired and fell out of a leap or two near the end. As for Katarina Witt, the 1988 gold-medal winner, she placed seventh -- again, no thanks to the judges. She had suffered through months of jeering that she was returning to competition for frivolous reasons. But her long program was the best choreographed and most stylish of the contest. Unlike the jump-and-spin fests offered by most contestants, hers had varied pacing and intricate...
Soon all this unhappiness will be outshouted by the welcome advent of actual competition. Can Katarina Witt come back from six years of taking it easy on the ice-show circuit? Is Bonnie Blair still the fastest woman on earth, or at least the fastest three inches above it? Does anything remain of Alberto Tomba but the boasting? These are sporting questions to be resolved on the rink or slope, not in a courtroom or hospital operating theater. And as always, there will be surprises, fresh faces emerging, familiar ones sagging, obscurities having everything go right on one perfectly timed...
William G. Witt, copyright officer in theoffice of Sourcebook Publications, said that therelative breakdown of cost per sourcebook is "50percent copyright fees and 50 percent reproductioncosts...
Such violence is rare, but more and more athletes are being forced to deal with the warped actions of obsessive fans. Katarina Witt, the sexy, stylish German star who won Olympic gold in 1984 and 1988, had to seek an injunction at a U.S. federal court in 1992 against a man who was terrorizing her with obscene and threatening letters. He was committed to a psychiatric hospital for three years...
Produced by Rob Jacoby and Susanna Witt...