On Figure Skates, Americans Rule

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Finally, it is America's time to show the world how good good can be. At last - at last - it will be the women's figure-skating long program taking over today in Nagano. It is the most anticipated winter Olympics event by millions of people from coast to coast, border to border, and around the world as well as by all the military forces in foreign lands and those aboard ships at sea.

This is big. Real big.

You Russians and Norwegians can have your screwy biathlon and you Japanese can have your silly ski jumping and you Canadians can have your goofy curling, but those are but specks on Olympic radar compared with our majestic figure skating. Hope all you other …