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...headed for Sarajevo is flush with champions, and not only skaters this time, although there is a bumper haul of those, but skiers too. Count them, seven current or recent world titleholders: Alpine Skiers Phil Mahre, Steve Mahre and Tamara McKinney, Figure Skaters Scott Hamilton, Rosalynn Sumners and Elaine Zayak, and Nordic Cross-Country Skier Bill Koch. Once the American public finds out that there is also a Nordic combined event and that it involves a 70-meter leap one day along with a 15-km mush the next, who will believe that just about the best in the world...
...Elsban Zayak, 1982 world champion, and Brian Boltano, 7th ranked in the world, are using the event as a warm-up for the National Championships in January that will determine if they skate in the February Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia...
Davison, a professional skater who spent much of her high school days competing against well-known champions like Dorothy Hamill and Elaine Zayak, has picked up a hockey stick and donned bulkier skates for the Harvard women's team...
...have long to wait. At eleven, she performed two triples in a novice competition and was on her way. At 14, Zayak finished fourth in the National Championships, and though she did not make the Olympic team, she was selected to compete in the World Championships a few weeks later. Last month the jumping jack vaulted past more seasoned U.S. skaters and took the National Senior Women's Championship...
...next night in the free-skating program, Zayak decided that having got mad, she would now get even. From her first dazzling triple-loop, double-loop combination, she was a spinning dervish. She threw one near-perfect triple after another until she had reached her goal of seven and won her silver medal -and every heart in the house. Just wait...