While in Nagoya at the Grand Prix Final, Amber Glenn was on an extracurricular mission. She wanted to check out a store to find a niche card game, one of her hobbies. One of the personal cubbyholes into which she darts off-ice. Said Alysa Liu: “Can I come with you?” So the two top American […]
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Alysa Liu, and the Impossible Dream
“What the hell?” said she, who had just accomplished the impossible. Seconds before Alysa Liu finished her MacArthur Park free program at the world figure skating championships, the crowd of more than 19,000 in the TD Centre in Boston, stood up as one, screaming for her. They broke the sound barrier. “What the hell?” Liu […]
Loena Hendrickx Conquers
MONTREAL It’s quite apparent that Belgian skater Loena Hendrickx is the queen of mind over matter, of love over pain, of rising to the moment. Hendrickx, the European champion, wasn’t even sure she was going to make it to the world championships this week, because she had been in so much pain from a problem […]