NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/rec/skate/3339

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From: [e-mail] (Helena T Robinson)
Subject: Re: Skate Canada - Full Results
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Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:31:32 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Sandra Loosemore) writes (in part):
>The various fall competitions (including Skate America, Skate Canada,
>the Trophee Lalique, the NHK Cup, and who knows how many others) are
>"minor" competitions, sponsored by the various national skating
>organizations as a means to provide some international competition
>experience to their younger skaters.  Most skaters only end up
>participating in one or two of these competitions each year.

However, last year many potential Olympians used these events - particularly
Skate America and Trophee Lalique - as occasions to "try out" their programs
for Albertville.  The latter-named event was especially enticing since it
served as the "test event" for the rink being used tfor the Olympics.  One
reason cited for Kurt Browning's participation in this event, despite physical
problems that already caused his chief competitors to pull out, was to gain the
"psychological edge" in having "skated on Olympic ice."

Another reason several questions have arisen concerning absence of the
better-known competitors is that these events received fairly wide TV coverage
last year.  Perhaps the fact that Skate America and Skate Canada have been
televised this year attests to the attraction the sport has gained in the past
year?

Helena Robinson
[e-mail]