The Cutting Edge Page #5

...everything will be fine?

It usually only took me

about 1 0 minutes to relax.

Our program is

two and a half minutes.

So eight minutes after

we're done I'll be fine.

So here they are, former

U.S. champion Kate Moseley...

...and ex-hockey star Doug Dorsey

at their first nationals.

And what a place to make

your competitive debut.

Side by side double axels.

Here they come.

And they nailed them.

They nailed them just beautifully.

What a night for U. S. pairs skating.

It's extraordinary.

Brian Neuman and Lorie Pekurovsky

into first place.

Johnny and Jodie Weiderman

into the number two spot.

And out of nowhere, Kate Moseley

and Doug Dorsey grab number three.

Two couples are all

the United States...

...are allowed to send

to the olympic Games.

Tomorrow night's long program

should be very exciting.

Man, this overnight thing is brutal.

Why can't it be a double-header?

Short program, long program,

same night.

We're out of here.

Know what I mean?

I know what you mean.

It's like, enough already. It's like....

What's the word?

You know what word

I'm looking for?

I don't know. Expectation?

-No, no. When you....

-Anticipation?

-Excitement?

-Foreplay.

-Foreplay?

-Yeah, you know. Like foreplay.

Yeah, I know what it means.

Well, wouldn't you rather

just get right to it?

-What?

-Skating.

Long program.

Chicago. Nationals.

Flowers?

Sleep.

I'd rather sleep.

Sleep?

Brian Neuman

and Lorie Pekurovsky.

Beautiful skating. This assures them

a place on the olympic team.

The remaining spot will

go to one of the two teams...

...Ieft to skate: Moseley-Dorsey

or the Weidermans.

Kate Moseley and Doug Dorsey.

What a performance.

Look at that sit spin.

This crowd knows it's seeing

history in the making.

We're in for a major upset tonight.

oh, yes. That was great skating.

Clean, powerful,

and the crowd just loved it.

-Fantastic.

-Are those for me?

Hey. You were great.

5. 4, 5. 4, 5. 4....

These are not great marks.

I expected much higher.

Evidently, so did the crowd.

It's hard to explain

to people outside the sport...

...but sometimes the scores

reflect more than what's on the ice.

The judges have their favorites...

...and they obviously don't include

Moseley and Dorsey.

It looks like the Weidermans will join

Neuman and Pekurovsky...

...on the olympic team.

This is horseshit.

What crap are they trying to pull?

We skated our asses off out there.

You call this a sport?

Bullshit.

Just terrible. She stepped into

the spin, then I'm not sure...

...but it looked like she got caught

in his lederhosen.

You know what this means.

We are in.

Yeah. Yeah. We're going to France.

Parlez-vous Olympics?

Sure you wanna do this?

Whatever you're having.

All right. We're here.

Oh, boy.

Okay.

Wanna dance?

No, I don't think so.

Doug.

Douglas, you silly thing.

Please don't think.

That's what I like about the way I feel.

Even if I tried to think, I couldn't.

And I think too much,

and I think so long. And it's so tiring.

The world is spinning

and spinning and spinning.

Look....

Did you ever play with magnets?

You used to have to

push them around...

...and they'd push away and

you push them around the table?

All you really had to do was

just flip them over, and suddenly....

Don't you see? That's why

everything's been so awful.

All we needed was a little flip.

Kate, it's not right.

What about Hale?

Oh, Hale shmale.

We're through.

Our engagement is off.

Flip.

Come on. Not tonight.

Not like this.

Not like what?

Not like me?

-Kate, you're bombed.

-What do you mean?

That means that it's time

for you to go to bed.

God, just what I need.

Someone else telling me what to do.

In case you've missed it,

I am throwing myself at you.

I am tearing off my clothes...

...and you are giving me a rundown

on drinking dos and don'ts.

Kate, why don't you calm--

I get enough coaching

on the ice. Get out.

-You've got this all wrong.

-Do I ever.

Excuse my surprise, but really,

what a disappointment.

-What is that supposed to mean?

-Well, look at you.

God's gift to reckless abandon...

...revealed as nothing but a prude

in wolf's clothing.

You're a lousy drunk.

And you're a lousy date.

It didn't have to be like this.

I said, get out.

Hi.

I watched your program.

You've got a great sit spin.

I thought maybe

we could trade secrets.

It's a little early for practice, isn't it?

I'm sorry. I must have

the wrong room.

Ask her for more towels, will you?

Kate.

Kate.

Kate, will you wait a minute? Kate.

Kate.

Kate.

-Kate.

-Don't. Don't even try it.

Just looking at you makes me sick.

To think I was coming to apologize.

Lorie Pekurovsky.

Were you or were you not engaged

until last night?

-Hardly the point.

-You threw me out of your room.

She may not have

waited much longer.

-That's not how it happened.

-Spare me the details.

-Where the hell do you get off?

-Me?

This is my fault?

From the first day, you treated me

like a hired hand.

Then one night you get drunk,

I'm supposed to thank my lucky stars?

I'm sorry. I don't downshift that fast.

-Get out of my way.

-No problem.

I've been practicing that move

for a year and a half.

Blind date.

So we have little problem, da?

So we have little problem, da?

Good. We skip little problem...

...and go straight line

to big problem.

"And what is big problem, coach?"

Smilkov and Brushkin.

"Who?"

Smilkov and Brushkin.

Last night they win

European Championship.

Perfect scores.

Everybody's been blown away.

Contest is over.

Smilkov and Brushkin

are unbeatable.

So hello Soviet surprise package.

Goodbye gold medal.

Of course, there is possible solution.

But it's probably too dangerous.

Where did these come from?

For 20 years

I've been working on this.

But you know, to have skaters,

to have situation, to have desire...

...is not ready until now.

What is this?

Is this a bounce spin into a throw?

-You can't do that.

-The key to this is release.

There can be no halfway.

No. No. It's illegal.

Is gray area.

Bounce spin to a throw twist.

Then I catch her?

Well, sort of.

We can't do this.

Why not? We have all the pieces.

We have five weeks.

The Pamchenko Twist.

-Absolutely not.

-Expect us to name it after you?

No, no. Is mistake.

-ls not right time.

-This is good stuff. I can do this.

-What are you saying? I can't?

-Hey, if the shoe fits.

Hey, listen. I have been

competing for 1 3 years...

...and nobody tells me

what I can or cannot do.

Don't quit your day job.

Okay, again.

Again.

Again, again.

Again. Again.

Katya, head up.

Higher. Higher. She has to fly.

-Are they gonna get it?

-Eventually.

Before they kill each other?

Release. Release must be total.

Is no halfway. Halfway is bullshit.

You go halfway, you get hurt.

Higher.

Much higher.

We are needing an explosion.

Kate?

I was just looking at

the pictures of mother.

I can hear her now:

"The Olympics."

It's what she always dreamed of.

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