1.   Our skating stars are as big as football stars.

2.   THE marriage of world champion ice skater Christopher Dean to Canadian skating star Isabelle Duchesnay is over.

3.   As the daughter of a New York lawyer and one of six siblings, Hughes was used to blending in, even as a high-profile skating star.

4.   Baiul talks about the accident, her Olympic triumph, her plans for the future and fellow skating stars Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding.

5.   A gay skating star wants to marry his lover on center ice during a Disneyesque tour.

6.   In a country where skating stars are national icons and classrooms include the sport in the studies of folklore, second place is considered unacceptable.

7.   In that field, CBS can latch onto preordained American skating stars.

8.   The United States almost certainly will send its three brightest skating stars to Nagano next month.

9.   While Eldredge cannot say exactly how many times his parents mortgaged the family home to pay for his training, the skating star knows it was more than once.