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Skaters on Magazine Covers

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Do you remember some of the wonderful magazine covers that featured some of our favorite figure skaters?

Sports Illustrated, 1968 - "US Olympic Champion Peggy Fleming".
Peggy was shown stroking on an outdoor rink in Grenoble, France, the morning after she won her gold medal. She was wearing the chartreuse green dress her mother had sewn for her.

Life Magzine, 1968 - "Olympic Charmer, Peggy Fleming". Peggy was shown on the podium, waving to the crowd, with her gold medal wrapped around her neck.

Sports Illustrated, 1976 - Olympic preview issue that featured Dorothy Hamill twirling in a butterfly move (I think). Her hair was flying in the air. Dorothy was then a 3-time US champion and two-time World silver medalist. She was picked as a potential medalist, but not particularly as the gold medalist.

Sports Illustrated, 1988 - "Bravo Brian!" - Brian Boitano, the US men's gold medalist, was shown landing one of his triples, with a great, big smile. The cover story's title was "Great Skates" - and was it ever a night of great skating!

Sports Illustrated, 1992 - "American Dream" - Kristi Yamaguchi, the women's gold medalist, was shown with her gold medal, the first American woman to claim Olympic gold since Peggy Fleming.

Sports Illustrated, 1998, - "You Go, Girls!" - featured the American trio of Michelle Kwan, Tara Lipinski, and Nicole Bobek.


This is just a partial list -- there are plenty more magazine covers featuring our favorite figure skaters......any suggestions?
 

IDLERACER

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I distinctly remember Dorothy Hamill also making the cover of TIME in 1976 with a big headline that read "Artistry On Ice."

Last year, TIME must've had a premonition, as they chose Sarah Hughes as their cover girl over Michelle Kwan and Sasha Cohen, the opening week of the olympics. Of course, a week later, the cover featured a big close up of Salé and Peletier with a headline bemoaning the corruption of a classy sport.
 

dlkksk8fan

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I have a nice collection of magazines that feature skaters on the covers:

Laurence Owen- Sports Illustrated Feb 1961

Carol Heiss- Sports Illustrated Feb 1955

Jenkins and Albright-Sports Illustrated Jan 1956

Barbara Wagner and Bob Paul-Sports Illustrated Dec 1968

Scott Hamilton and Rosalynn Sumners-Sports Illustrated Feb 1984

Janet Lynn- Newsweek Feb 1972

Katarina Witt-Sports Illustrated (small photo) March 1988, and Playboy Dec 1998

Nancy Kerrigan "Why Me"-Sports Illustrated Jan 1994

Michelle Kwan-Sports Illustrated Feb 1998

Sarah Hughes-Sports Illustrated March 2002

Sale & Pelletier-Newsweek Feb 2002
 
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Wasn't Sarah Hughes on the cover of Time magazine just prior to the 2002 Winter Olympics? The caption read something like:
"Sarah Hughes hopes to join Michelle Kwan and Sasha Cohen on the Olympic podium". Talk about an understatement!
 
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I'd like to post the covers of all of the magazines I mentioned on my initial post that started this thread!! They were great covers.
 
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Wasn't there a Sports Illustrated cover in '91 that showed Kristi, Nancy Kerrigan, and Tonya Harding? The caption was something about three US ladies on the podium at Worlds that year.

Then there is the Newseek, 2002, preOlympic, "Can Michelle Kwan Kick Ice?" cover, with Michelle doing something like lifting a barbell. A lot of "hear me roar" photos in the article, one with Michelle in a bikini getting out of a pool.

Whoever it was at Time who made the decision to go with the Sarah Hughes cover probably got a huge raise and a promotion after picking Sarah to win the gold. Not even the Vegas odds makers gave her much of a chance.
Rgirl
 

Tonichelle

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That cover photo of Jamie and David is probably my favorite magazine cover ever :)
 
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COOL! I remember every one of those covers!!!
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Thank you for posting them, IDLERACER!
 

berthes ghost

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Time actually had one more skater on it's cover, the first. It was Sonja, but from her movie days (1939). She was however wearing skates in the picture.
 

Tonichelle

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dude! 25 cents for SI!!!! talk about your good ol days! :)

I just noticed that Laurence Owens was deemed "America's Most Exciting skater girl" on Sports Illustrated... *sigh* such a horrible loss :(
 

CB1AB2

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this is an awesome subject=great pictures on the covers=
I wish I had some of the older magazines so I could read the stories.

cb
 

astimegoesby

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I'm assuming this thread is about non-skating related magazines, so here's the ones I can think of that nobody's mentioned yet:

http://www.pairsonice.net/gordeeva/media/mags/people-skaterstragedy1.jpg (Katia and Daria on the cover of March 1996 People magazine)

http://www.pairsonice.net/gordeeva/media/mags/people-ladieswholutz1.jpg (Katia, Kristi and Oksana on the cover of Nov. 1996 People magazine)

http://www.pairsonice.net/gordeeva/media/mags/readersdigest.jpg (Katia and Daria on the cover of March 1996 Reader's Digest)

http://www.pairsonice.net/gordeeva/media/mags/tvguide1.jpg (Katia on the cover of 1997 TV Guide)

http://www.pairsonice.net/gordeeva/media/mags/goodhousekeeping1.jpg (Katia and Daria on the cover of Nov. 1997 Good Housekeeping)

http://www.pairsonice.net/gordeeva/media/mags/target-holiday97.jpg (Katia on 1997 Target The Family magazine)

http://www.pairsonice.net/gordeeva/media/mags/target-holiday98.jpg (Katia, Kurt, Josée and Scott on 1998 Target the Family magazine)

And from a Canadian perspective:

http://www.canadianexcellence.com/gallery/83star1.jpg (A very young Brian Orser on the cover of Starweek--this looks like some kind of TV Guide-type magazine)

Skaters have also been featured on many, many Macleans covers (the Canadian equivalent of Time or Newsweek) over the years, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any of them online. There was one with Katarina Witt and Liz Manley on the cover sometime around 1991, one with Josée, Tonya and Nancy during the 1994 Olympics, another with Elvis and Josée (he in a tux, she in a long black dress) during the 1994 Olympics, one with Kurt surrounded by the female SOI cast members in 1995 and a whole bunch of others I'm forgetting right now...
 
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