1.   You can demonstrate this with a short program incorporating the previous example.

2.   American teen-agers Sasha Cohen and Sarah Hughes turned in strong performances and placed third and fourth in the short program, and Russian Maria Butyrskaya was a solid fifth.

3.   And Eldredge has learned from painful experience that the most important jump in skating is the triple axel-triple toe combination in the short program.

4.   And all you can do in the short program is lose.

5.   And apparently, so did the judges, who boosted Weiss from fourth place after the short program to second place overall.

6.   And it will be repeated on Tuesday when the women begin the short program.

7.   Anything below third in the short program, and a skater cannot win a gold medal without mistakes by other competitors.

8.   At a news conference after the short program that traditionally includes the three leaders, only the Americans appeared.

9.   At those Games, he was cruising in the short program until he fell on a simple double axel.

10.   At the national championships, Kwan had inserted the triple flip into her short program because of a stress fracture in her left foot.