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OPopperfoto/Alamy;tpOPopperfoto/Alamy;30Julie Woodhouse/Alamy;6◎StevePowell/Getty Images;10,12 OPopperfoto/Alamy.  \nCopyright Oby Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or byany means,electronic ormechanical,including photocopying or recording,or by any information storage and retrieval system,without the priorwitten permission of the copyright owner unless such copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright lawRequestsfor permission to make copies of any part of the work should be addressed to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers,Attn:Permissions,6277 Sea Harbor Drive,Orlando,Florida 32887-6777.  \nPrinted in China  \nISBN-10:0-547-25298-6  \nISBN-13:978-0-547-25298-8  \n891009401817161514134500408763  \n\n| If you have received these materials as examination copies free of charge,Houghton Miffin Harcourt School Publishers  \u003Cbr>retains title to the materials and they may not be resold.Resale of examination copies is strictly prohibited.   |\n| --- |\n\n\n| Possesion of this publication in print format does not entitle users to convert this publication,or any portion of it,into  \u003Cbr>electronic format.   |\n| --- |\n\n# Table of Contents\n\nBeginnings in Nottingham.  \nChristopher Dean's Story..  \nPartners!..  \nBringing Changes to Ice Dancing.  \nThe 1984 Olympics at Sarajevo..  \nChanges in the Olympics..  \n..4  \n……13  \n………14  \nNottingham,England:A city close to the center of England andhome of Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.  \nIt was February 14,1984,and in Sarajevo,Yugoslavia,the Olympic Games were well underway.A young Britishteam,Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean,were aboutto make history in an event traditionally dominated bythe Russians—ice dancing.They had been a team since1975,and everything had been building toward the 1984Olympics since then.Now the big moment had finallyarrived.They both kneeled on the ice,arms outstretched,still as two stone statues.They looked into each other'seyes,silently waiting for the first beat of Maurice Ravel'shypnotizing song Bolero.This was it—the pinnacle of theiramateur careers.How did they get here?  \nBeginnings in Nottingham  \nJayne Torvill was born in Nottingham,England,onOctober 7,1957.Jayne had no brothers or sisters,but shehad aunts,an uncle,and lots of cousins who lived in thesame neighborhood.Jayne and her cousins were insepara-ble,in and out of one another's houses all the time.Whenshe was eight,Jayne went on a class trip to the Nottinghamice rink.There,everyone in the class was fitted with  \nrented skates and teetered into a rope enclosure on the ice.Jayne had a good sense of balance and got the feel of howto stand up on the skates right away.Then the rope waslet down,and they were allowed to skate all over the rink.Jayne loved the feeling of sailing over solid ground withthe wind brushing her cheeks.She was “hooked”andpersuaded her parents to bring her back to the rink thenext day.  \nSoon Jayne was taking two and then three lessonsa week from Thelma Perry,her skating teacher.Jaynejumped,spun,waltzed,and did the foxtrot—all on ice.Shecut lobes,or semicircles,on its smooth surface.Skatingin time to the music came quite naturally to Jayne,andshe advanced quickly.Soon she began taking the NationalSkating Association tests in figure skating and ice dancing.She won certificate after certificate.  \nWhen she was twelve,Jayne began pair skating withher first partner,MichaelHutchinson.Michael wassixteen,good-looking,andvery popular.Jayne,whowas young and shy,lookedup to Michael like a bigbrother.Jayne and Michaeldid quite well.In 1970,they won the British Junior  \nPair Skating  \nIn pair skating,the skatersare sometimes apart andsometimes together.Whenapart,they move in unison,synchronizing their jumps,spins,and footwork.","cbCaitVE5bPzyVdw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitVE5bPzyVdw","pdf",1631652,20,"English","# Table of Contents\n## 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