It had been three years, almost half a lifetime in amateur skating, since Americans had captured both the men's and women's singles titles at the annual World Figure Skating Championships. In Geneva last week neither of the defending favorites was from the U.S., but when the ice cleared, the best in the world were two Californians, Brian Boitano, 22, and Debi Thomas, 18. (He is from Sunnyvale, she from San Jose.) In the freestyle final, Boitano zoomed from fourth place to first on the strength of a bravura jitterbugging performance to Gershwin and the blues. Thomas "just got inspired" after watching...
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