DENVER — Kristi Yamaguchi, one of the most celebrated American figure skaters in Olympic history, is looking back on her 1992 gold‑medal performance while turning her attention to the rising athletes ...
Kristi Yamaguchi entered the 1992 Albertville Olympics under enormous pressure to bring home a gold medal. Having beaten Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan at the 1991 World Championships in women’s ...
Anyone watching Kristi Yamaguchi skate her way to Olympic gold at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, would have guessed that the 20-year-old World Champion had been athletic from the ...
More than three decades after she became an Olympic gold medalist, Kristi Yamaguchi is going through a rebirth of sorts. In 1990 Yamaguchi, now 54, competed in the World Figure Skating Championships ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A 1992 Olympic champion figure skater reminisced about the opportunity and its impacts years later. Kristi Yamaguchi, 54, was 20 when she entered the Olympic scene in ...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — The U. women's national gymnastics team will have to make a go of it at the world championships without Hezly Rivera. Olympic berths, historic streaks and future roster ...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — The U. women's national gymnastics team will have to make a go of it at the world championships without Hezly Rivera. From Hezly Rivera’s ankle to Skye Blakely’s beam, ...
Following her nearly flawless short program to “Blue Danube,” Kristi Yamaguchi had put herself in a strong position at the ’92 Olympics. Entering the free skate, she sat ahead of both Kerrigan and Ito ...