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Re: TWW on ice

From: v115p8d6@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (she listens like her head's on fire..)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:33:00 GMT
Subject: Re: TWW on ice
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In article <9301251853.AA18058@wente.llnl.gov>, ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi) writes...
>In article <1993Jan24.023042.22422@eaglet.rain.com>:
>> 
>If by "next year's winter games" you mean the Winter Olympics, then
>she won't be able to use this song unless the rules are changed.  Songs
>with vocals are not permitted at the Olympics, or indeed at any
>amateur figure skating championships (e.g. the World Championships).
>Rosalyn Sumners was in the Olympics quite a while ago (1984, I believe),
>so she's almost certainly professional now.  The show you saw was most
>probably a competition among professionals, where vocal music IS allowed.

Thats odd. I could have sworn that Torville and Dean used vocal music
in the 1984 olympics in one of their routines. I remember it distinctly.

> 
>Ed
>ed@wente.llnl.gov