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...Katarina Witt is the most extreme example in recent memory, with a ballerina's body and a model's features; her performance Saturday night made the most of her seductive looks. Swathed in a red dress with black sequins, her face layered with an inch of rouge and at least as much eyeshadow, Witt cut a striking figure as she skated onto the ice. After a few minor spins and jumps she entered the second sequence of her program, the memorable part--she kicked, she tossed her head, she waved her arms, she smiled. She looked compelling and sexy...
...even lovely, long-haired Peggy Fleming pointed out that all of a minute-and-a-half went by without a major athletic move. By the end of the five-minute performance, Witt had executed an unambitious number of triple-jumps. But she had glided dramatically down to the ice, lying dead and beautiful, a perfectly acted Carmen. That performance won her the gold...
Ignoring the weird spasm of patriotism I suffer every four years or so, I can admit that Witt danced a beautiful program to beautiful music. In this most watched of Olympic events, however, it is ironic that dancing to beautiful music is what wins...
...Witt was confident in her ability to score high on "artistic impression", she could avoid a technically challenging program. But those skaters who didn't pass the conventional glamour test had to design thrilling, athletic choreography, the kind of choreography that puts ice skating in the category of sport. No viewer can fairly say that the judges were biased against Debi Thomas--she stumbled and fell, she seemed awkward and unconfident. But it does seem that Witt won without the disadvantages Thomas and other skaters had to face: namely risky, exciting moves. While the audience waited anxiously to glimpse skaters...
...negative clips of Zayak--something about standards on women's ice skating should be questioned. In the Olympic gymnastic events athletes compete in teams, all wearing the same uniforms and little makeup. The women are judged not by their facial beauty or their "well-built" bodies, as Witt said she wished to be judged by, but by a true combination of graceful strength and athletic elegance...