Word: zayak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Flaine Zayak from Paramus, New Jersey? Who is America's most proficient cross-country skier? Tell me about bobsledding or the East German threat. What's lugging...
...figure skaters usually invest all their hopes in one particular woman and, lately, no special man, but this time there are two eminent females, 1983 World Champion Rosalynn Sumners and 1982 World Champion Elaine Zayak, as well as the world's best male skater for the past three years, Scott Hamilton. A compact strongman, Hamilton should be the royal presence in these games and is thought to have a Heiden's lock on the first U.S. men's singles gold medal since David Jenkins...
...silver-medal performance by Linda Fratianne at Lake Placid four years ago was considered a slip-up (the gold went to East German Anett Potzsch). But it is not standard for U.S. women to be fighting among themselves the way they are now; so evenly, that is. Sumners beat Zayak in the 1982 nationals, only to have Zayak rebound a few weeks later at the Worlds, and a sequined hair-pull has been in progress ever since...
...last week's U.S. championships in Salt Lake City, after Hamilton had skated to victory with immaculate control, the competition among the women took a toll. Sumners won, though not impressively, and an obviously tired Zayak fell twice during her free-skating exhibition, winding up third behind promising Tiffany Chin, 16, of San Diego...
Fearless or phobic, most skaters are also romantics, including the superathletes among them. Says Hamilton: "I'd like everybody-Rosalynn and Elaine, Peter and Kitty-to come away from this year satisfied with what they've done, and ready for the rest of their lives." Zayak, for her part, is not thinking much beyond the Olympics, the grand chance to redeem her string of failures. "It's made me mad," she says, "and when I'm mad, watch out!" -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by B.J. Phillips with the U.S. figure skating team