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A Skating Star's Long Fall from Grace - People  Apr 17, 1989 ... Tai Babilonia was only 9 years old when a figure-skating coach in Culver City, Calif., asked her to perform a routine with 11-year-old Randy Gardner. ... Tai began to drink and use drugs, quit skating and, finally, attempted suicide. Only now is she beginning to understand how thoroughly the self-disciplined...
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Soul on Ice - People  Dec 9, 1996 ... Anxiously she grabbed the phone and called Randy Gardner, her best friend and skating partner of 28 years, and persuaded. ... IT WAS TWO HOURS BEFORE SHOWTIME on Oct. 18, and Tai Babilonia was well beyond nervous. ... were 9 and 11 respectively when their Culver City skating coach put them...
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Skating Star Tai Babilonia Opens Up About Her Struggle With ...  For decades, Tai Babilonia and her partner Randy Gardner were known as ice skating royalty. ... January 9, 2015 11:10 PM By Pat Harvey ... She and her partner, both from California, broke so many records that they soon became ... I turned professional, start making the money, the parents are gone, the coach is gone.
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Ice Capades from the Edge : NBC Movie Retells Tai Babilonia's ...  Nov 4, 1990 ... As an ice skating champion, Tai Babilonia is no stranger to television cameras. Her amateur accomplishments with partner Randy Gardner--including the ... in Toronto, to film a TV movie about her life story--a tale not only of the thrill of victory ... She has since been in therapy and last year began performing...
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J! Archive - Show #1265, aired 1990-02-16  Tai Babilonia was only 9 when she began skating with this partner, who was 11. $200, 7. The "wet" type is used for cars, the "dry" type for flashlights. $200, 11 ... Her maiden name was Marilyn Tucker, & she met her husband at Indiana...
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The 14-Year-Old Olympic Gymnast Who Scored The First Perfect 10 ...  Jul 21, 2016 ... At the age of 14, Comneci made her Olympic debut at the 1976 ... no Olympian gymnast had managed to score a perfect 10  in fact, such a ... Comneci went on to earn six more perfect scores at Montreal, ... In July 1976, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci won gold at the ... science & exploration.
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Dashed Dreams When Randy Gardner Was Injured, The Life Of His ...  Nov 4, 1990 ... Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner were favored almost. ... the gold medal in pairs figure skating as the Russians were to defeat the U.S. team in ice hockey. ... Gardner never got a chance to bid for their laurels at Lake Placid. An injury to Gardner forced them to withdraw from the competition in which they...
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Tara Lipinski becomes youngest Olympic figure skating gold medalist  In 1994, at age 12, she won a gold medal at the U.S. Olympic Festival, a junior-level competition. ... At the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Lipinski and teammate Michelle Kwan ... Kwan took home the silver medal and China's Chen Lu won the bronze. ... Oksana Baiul from Ukraine won the gold in women's figure skating.).
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Ekaterina Gordeeva - Wikipedia  Ekaterina "Katia" Alexandrovna Gordeeva (Russian:   ) (born May 28, 1971) is a Russian (former Soviet) figure skater. Together with her partner and husband, the late Sergei Grinkov, she was the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion and four-time World Champion in Pair Skating. ... Gordeeva began figure skating at age four, when she entered Children and...
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OVER EASY FOR SURYA BONALY THE SKATING HAS NEVER ...  Mar 6, 1995 ... Then Surya Bonaly of France took the ice as if sling-shot ... Then, as suddenly as Bonaly had started, she was through. She ... of her daughter's training, which she moved to a remote resort in ... Even in figure skating, a sport in which reputations are ... She was adopted at the age of eight months by Suzanne
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Michelle Kwan - Wikipedia  Michelle Wingshan Kwan (born July 7, 1980) is an American figure skater. She is a two-time .... Michelle began to develop a more mature style in 1996. ... Kwan won her third national title at the 1999 U.S. Championships, competing against ..... in 1998 (an ice skating adaptation of the Disney film Mulan, based on the Chinese...
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At 14, She Has Veteran Maturity - latimes  Mar 16, 1997 ... Figure skating: U.S. champion Tara Lipinski rides recent successes into this week's world championships. ... Lipinski, of course, isn't like any other 14-year-old and the necklace isn't just jewelry. ... She's upset Michelle Kwan in back-to-back competitions, and is now the top skater heading .... March 1, 1997...
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Figure Skating | Britannica.com  American figure skater who won the gold medal for women's figure skating in the ... At age 10 she won the Norwegian national figure-skating championship, and in .... who dominated world-level women's competition from 1964 through 1968.
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The Definitive Ranking Of Olympic Ladies Figure Skating Gold ...  Kristi Yamaguchi - 1992 Olympic Figure Skating Champion ... Kristi Yamaguchi was the first American woman to win the Olympics in figure skating since 1976. ... Tara Lipinski kissing the gold medal she earned at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games, ..... On 4 August 2012 she became the second player after Steffi Graf to win a...
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Articles about World Figure Skating Championships - tribunedigital ...  I am going to give Thursday's ice dance final at the World Figure Skating ... of the World Figure Skating Championships, a 16-year-old Italian who bounded around the ... D.C. like a frolicsome fawn as Michelle Kwan won her last of five world titles. ... Irina Slutskaya, the 2002 champion who has missed the season because of...
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50 facts you didn't know about Tara Lipinski, former figure skater ...  Jul 24, 2015 ... Tara Kristen Lipinski is a former American figure skater. 2. ... When she won the 1997 World Champion at the age of 14 years, ... At the 1991 United States Roller Skating Championships, she won the primary girls freestyle as a nine-year-old. 9. ... Tara Lipinski became the youngest ladies figure skating gold...
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The 10 Greatest Figure Skaters Who Never Won an Olympic Medal  Mar 5, 2012 ... Kathy is a former competitive figure skater, Sarah is a repository of ... won Olympic gold, before Michelle Kwan won nine U.S. Championships, five ... she retired from skating after failing to qualify for the 1987 World .... Their performance at the 1992 Olympics  at which the pairs event was still dominated by...
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Start Figure Skating - Go Figure Skating  Too old to get started as a competitive figure skater? ... Michael Weiss started figure skating at age 9. Michael is a 3 Time U.S. National Champion, 2 time world bronze medallist, and a ... He is the first American man to land a quad toe loop in competition and also the first American to land a quad toe loop in a short program.
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CNN.com - Then & Now: Ekaterina Gordeeva - Jun 19, 2005  Jun 22, 2005 ... In 1995, Olympic gold medalist Ekaterina Gordeeva lost her figure skating ... Ten years later, the athlete still finds comfort on the ice and has ... In 1984, the duo won the Junior World Ice Skating Championships in ... The pair captured the gold medal in their very first Olympic competition, and that same year...
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January 16, 1982 - Beth Heiden grief has Docter wary | Chicago ...  Jan 16, 1982 ... She was 16 during the Lake Placid Olympics, asd wherever Beth went, ... She saw her heroine crushed by the that a bronze medal in ... as dominant among women skaters as her brother, Eric, was among the men. ... Sure, she d like to be a world champion-that s even harder than winning one Olympic race.
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Ekaterina Gordeeva - Ice Skater, Athlete - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... In their 13 years of skating together, Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov were first co-workers, ... parents and won four world championships and two Olympic gold medals. ... She continued skating and one year later was paired with Grinkov. ... Gordeeva & Grinkov's first Olympics in 1988 was filled with nerves,...