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Kurt went back to his room and couldn't sleep for 2 hours thinking of Mike's
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smell and the feel of his dick inside him, which left a pleasant soreness as a
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reminder. He drew out his huge cock and jerked off thinking of Mike inside him.
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In the morning he wrote a short note, self conscious of his English, but
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knowing he had to write something.
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Dear Mike,
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Last night was fantastic. I think of you often. I can't sleep for wanting you
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and hope you feel something for me and like me a little at least. Sincerely,
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Kurt
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When Mike read the note, just before he went to breakfast, it made him glow
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inside and the colors around him seemed more intense. Suddenly being in the
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Olympics was something to be savored and no matter how he did in the
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competition, he'd have the pleasant memory of Kurt. He thought he'd better keep
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his head and concentrate on the figure competition, but without missing out on
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the excitement of just being there. People who'd drawn numbers before him were
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completing their first figure and Mike laced his skates carefully, thinking of
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every element of the backchange loop he had to skate as his first figure. When
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he got on the ice, he looked at the sparse audience, some of whom were
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spectators who couldn't get tickets to the free skating, and had to settle for
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watching people trace figure eights. Mike would have felt a little sympathy for
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them ordinarily, but his mind was on the back change loop figure only.
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Mike thought of Kurt for a second, and took a deep breath before stepping on
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the ice. He didn't have anything to lose really, he was "just one of the
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skaters people don't notice," he kept telling himself. The first figure was
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skated and he knew it was good by the look on his coaches face. It was ranked
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7th out of the 22 skaters and coach Pudesco was beaming as if Mike had already
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won a gold medal. The next two figures were more characteristic and pulled his
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overall score back to 12th place, but he couldn't help feeling overjoyed that
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there were 10 skaters behind him. His forte was free skating and the short
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program was the next day, and if skated well, would surely position him in the
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top ten. Walking down a dank hallway toward the locker room, Mike felt a hand
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touch his shoulder and looked over to find Kurt at his side. Kurt put both his
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arms in a bear hug around Mike and lifted him up off his feet saying "way to
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go!" "Put me down you animal," Mike said laughing. Arms around each other's
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shoulders, they headed down the hall together.
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At lunch in the dining hall, they found a corner table with some Russian
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cross-country skiers who didn't speak any English or care about meeting them.
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"I got your note" Mike began slowly, as he watched a look of anxious
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anticipation come over Kurt's face, "and want to thank you" he continued, as he
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put his hand under the table and pet Kurt's inner thigh causing Kurt to smile
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at first but then frown as he realized he was getting a voluminous erection.
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Kurt grabbed the hand and said "stop that, or I'm going to make the table go
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up, you know with my dick." Mike laughed and thought of the table rising toward
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the ceiling. In the raucous clatter of the dining hall, they talked about their
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families and childhoods. Mike was surprised that Kurt had grown up as an only
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child, and not surrounded by friends, but still alone, like he'd been in Lake
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Placid.
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Back in Kurt's room, Mike sat on his lap and they kissed affectionately as he
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eyed a clock on the table for a moment. Mike had practice in a short while and
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Kurt had his first race that evening, the first of three. Both wanting to
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conserve energy, they stopped feeling each other's bodies and just looked into
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one another's eyes, satiating an emotional thirst they'd both suffered from.
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Mike broke the silence with, "what's it like having such a huge cock?, as he
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placed his hand on Kurt's growing crotch. "Ha, I don't know, it has always been
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with me...what's it like having such blue eyes?" Kurt countered, touching
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Mike's cheek bone and mimicking the same tone of voice Mike used in his
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question. Mike noticed his eyes in the mirror and although he liked their blue
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color, he saw nothing special in them. However, other people, even passers by,
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often found them startlingly blue and some even thought he had a special power
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to see things, like a seer might.
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"For speed skating, my dick is no good," Kurt began, wrinkling his brow and
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reflecting on it for a moment as if it were a serious philosophical question,
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"it is like a suitcase I have to carry between my legs and it not helps me to
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skate. I think all the best speed skaters carry small baggage," he added. Kurt
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had often felt insecure about himself because some men would look at his crotch
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before they would look at his face. On the street, he wore pants that were
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baggy so people would not stare. For speed skating, he found all forms of
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athletic support to create a cramping feeling and early on he discovered the
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only solution was to wear nothing at all under his tights, although even that
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was not completely comfortable. So it showed more -- he knew he was envied and
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it's no different than a girl with big tits --
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sometimes there's not much you can do to hide.
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Kurt's first race, the 500 meter, was not his best event and he finished in 7th
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place which was 2 places higher than he expected since the American seated
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above him fell, having had to cope with news of his sister's death earlier in
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the day. Dan Jensen's family tragedy helped Kurt's place standing. Kurt's best
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event was yet to come and he knew he had a remote chance at a medal, he just
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didn't want to think about it too much, there were many factors. He wanted Mike
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to be there and since it was 3 hours before he had to skate his short program
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in figure skating, Mike agreed to come.
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"Kurt looks so hot in his green skating tights" Mike thought as he watched Kurt
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nervously waiting for his race to begin. He was one of the last to skate and
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but when the gun sounded, he exploded off the starting line, a little out of
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control at first. Mike felt as though he were inside Kurt again, as much as he
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did the night before, only this time he was skating for him. When he crossed
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the finish line his time flashed on the board and he'd won the bronze medal.
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Kurt was ecstatic and enthusiastically extending his hand to skaters who wanted
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to shake it. The Austrian coach was in tears since it had been several years
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since Austria had won any medals in speed skating. Too far away from Kurt to
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get down near him quickly, Mike was stuck up in the stands while the last few
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skaters finished the race. At the medal ceremony, the silver medal winning East
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German looked sad in contrast to the smiling Kurt, who looked like he'd just
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won five gold medals instead of a bronze. The medal ceremony wasn't shown on
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American TV, since an American didn't win a medal, and it took some fancy
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camera work for Kirk's dick not to dominate the screen. Kurt was looking for
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Mike in the audience and finally their eyes met, Mike biting his lip with
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excitement and joy for Kurt, and partly in anxiety -- his short program was
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only a few hours away.
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Many European newscasters and journalists were very much interested in
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interviewing Kurt, and Mike had to fight his way through the throng to shake
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his hand. A German reporter asked Kurt a question and Mike slipped away to head
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for dinner, so he would have energy to skate the evening's short program. He
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met Nelson in the dining hall and told him about Kurt's bronze medal. Halfway
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through his meal of turkey tetrazini on toast points, Kurt came swaggering in,
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accompanied by a few Austrian and German speed skaters who were basking in his
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limelight, hoping some good fortune would rub off on them. Winning the bronze
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medal puts an athlete in the statistics books but it doesn't mean any riches in
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product endorsements. Many skaters wouldn't be happy with anything less than
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gold. "Where did you go?" Kurt asked Mike when he finally located him. Mike
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explained that he didn't think Kurt would get away for hours with all the fans
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mobbing him. Kurt grabbed Mike's arm and lead him into the bathroom, where he
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turned and put his arms around his neck, kissing him without regard for anyone
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lurking in a toilet stall. "I love you Mike" he said without hesitation. "Oh
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come on Kirk, Mike said holding himself back for a moment, wanting to believe
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he meant it, "that's just the bronze medal in you talking" "no, No, no, nein,
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it isn't, Kurt said convincingly, "I love you and I want to have your baby" he
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said as he grabbed Mike's crotch. They both howled as the sound of their
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laughter ricocheted off the tile walls. They returned to the table happy,
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looking like they'd both won the Olympics.
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In contrast to the simplicity and excitement of the race for gold in the speed
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skating oval, the atmosphere in the Saddledome was thick with tension for the
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men's short program. Brian Orifiz hadn't kept skating for 4 years, since his
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second place finish in the last Olympics, only come in second again. He kept
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pacing back and forth, walkman playing his therapeutic distraction music.
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Boichaser had the lead after figures and everyone who had seen his sensational
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short program in the U.S. Nationals knew he could conceivably do it again and
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cause the final long program to be a heated face-off. The focus was heavily on
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the two Brians and Mike and other skaters felt relief that they didn't have the
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extra pressure of publicity and expectations.
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Mike was the 4th skater of the evening, as he skated to the center of the ice,
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feeling unreal at the wave of applause that greeted him, mostly from Americans
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who considered him one of theirs even though he represented Venezuela, knowing
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that he grew up in the U.S. The sound of Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2
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filled the arena as Mike closed his eyes and concentrated on the sequence
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leading to his first jump combination. His turns felt smooth on the newly
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cleaned pristine ice that had not been chewed up by skaters before him. His
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triple jump combination made the audience gasp as he threw the second jump way
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into the air and seemed to hang in space for a few seconds before landing.
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However, a triple Loop is only of moderate difficulty in the array of skating
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tricks and unless he jumped ten feet off the ice, it would never compare with
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the triple Axels of the top skaters. While entering one of his camel spins, the
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audience held its breath as he stumbled by catching a toe rake in the ice, but
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recovered sufficiently to execute the spin well. A high death drop and it was
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over. Waiting for his marks, he stood in front of a TV camera and as the first
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set came up, all hovering in the 5.0 range for technical merit, the audience
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booed. When the artistic impression scores flashed on the board, the audience's
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reaction quickly changed as he received all 5.7s for artistic impression,
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except for the American judge who gave him a 5.6. Mike felt like jumping up and
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down when the high artistic scores were displayed but instead tried to smile in
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an acceptable way for the millions who might be watching on television, if it
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were being shown live. As he was leaving the arena on his way to the dressing
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room, Coach Pudesco's arm around his shoulder, Mike could hear Dick Button's
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voice mumbling in the background as another skater was ready to begin his
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program. JoJo Starcluck, pair skater from back in the early 70's, stop to
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congratulate him on his way down the hall, and told him perkily, "and you made
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live ABC coverage Mike!"
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An hour later, in the final group, Boichaser and Orifiz came out and skated
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spectacular routines to remain neck and neck going into the long program the
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following evening. Mike was 8th in the short program which brought him up to
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10th place overall.
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"I wish it was over," Mike told Kurt when they reached his room after the
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competition, "I'd be happy to finish in 10th place overall" he thought as he
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sighed and thought how glad he was not to be one of the Brians. "When are we
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going to have a chance to sleep together?" Mike asked Kurt in a plaintive tone
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not expecting an answer. He knew that it would all be over for both of them
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tomorrow night and they could start enjoying the Olympics and each other. Mike
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walked Kurt out the door just as Nelson was coming in to go to bed.
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Nelson's regular breathing during sleep soothed Mike as he listened to it,
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still wide awake at 2 a.m. He couldn't get the idea of doing a quadruple jump
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out of his mind. No skater had ever landed one cleanly in competition, although
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Boichaser had tried in the past, and he was known for doing them easily in
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practice. Only one skater in the competition was attempting one, a Canadian boy
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who was not in the running for a medal therefore had nothing to risk. In
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practice a few weeks before, Mike had landed his first and only quadruple, a
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quadruple toe-loop, and he thought of the furor that it would cause, if he, a
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nobody in 10th place, landed one in the Olympic finals. After deciding to talk
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it over with coach Pudesco in the morning, Mike finally turned over and went to
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sleep.
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"Sure, if you want to try it, go ahead, why not, but only if you feel you can
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do it" Pudesco said, scratching his head in delighted amazement that his black
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sheep Venezuelan might rise to the occasion and go down in skating history.
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Pudesco knew better than to try to hold a bucking stallion by the reins and so
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far, Mike had already done better than his highest expectations. Mike did not
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try the quad in practice that afternoon saying that it might make him change
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his mind, and after all, he didn't want to injure himself trying something new
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in practice. He hurried off to watch Kurt's final race. Kurt placed 12th in his
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last race, but was happy. His times were good, and he had a bronze medal. Only
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a small proportion of Olympic competitors go home with any medal.
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"Well Liebchen," Kurt said to Mike before going to his seat in the athlete's
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section of the arena, "I love you baby, and I'll wait for you by this door over
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here" Kurt said pointing to an exit door. Mike was on his own now, this long
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program would be his last hurdle. There were 2 groups of six skaters that went
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before him and he wanted to watch a few of the first skaters, just to get a
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feel of the full arena. Kurt brushed past Dorothy Hambone on his way to his
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seat and she leaned over and said in a low voice "Is it as big as they say?"
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Kurt looked at her and whispered "you will never know" as she broke out in good
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natured laughter as he continued to his seat.
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Backstage, the minutes dragged by for Mike as he started to think about his
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mother, and how he wished she were alive to be there to see him skate. Being
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gay, or being straight -- it wouldn't have mattered to her. She would have
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loved him as he is no matter what his sexual preference. Since green was her
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favorite color and she said it always looked good against his creamy brown
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skin, Mike wore green in all competitions. He thought about his costume, and
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smiled as he thought of Kurt in his green speedskating tights, which of course,
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was the Austrian uniform in speedskating for the Olympics.
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The long program competition in progress, Mike went into the locker room and
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started getting prepared in a ritualistic manner. First taking his clothes off,
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he put on his special supportive underwear, green in color, so they wouldn't
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show through his green pants. The dark green silk shirt fit his body loosely,
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although it was held in by high waisted pants which showed off his long legs
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and beautiful ass. He fastened the straps of his pants underneath his skates
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and headed out for the warm up, which was to begin in fifteen minutes. The
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skaters ranked from 6th place to 10th, on the basis of the combined score from
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figures and short program, were ready to take to the ice for their warm up.
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Mike had drawn numbers and he was second to skate, right after George Canby,
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the Canadian skater who would be attempting a quadruple toe-loop jump. Coach
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Pudesco arranged to tell Mike whether Canby had completed the jump successfully
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by giving him a hand signal as Mike came out to enter the ice. If Canby had
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made it, Mike didn't want to risk it. But if Canby blew it...
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George Canby did not complete the rotations of his quadruple toe loop and the
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rest of his program, which included a bad fall, threatened to lower him from
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6th place. Also in the next to the last group with Mike were two Americans,
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Paul Whileaway and Christopher Blowman, both excellent skaters, but it was
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Mike's turn now. An exchanged glance with Coach Pudesco, his palm turned toward
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the ice showed Mike that Mark had not completed his quad toe-loop. The audience
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roared as Mike skated to the center of the ice, waiting for his music to start.
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Kurt swallowed hard as Mike's name was being announced over the loud speaker,
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as Dorothy Hambone looked over at him and smiled, feeling delighted that she
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knew a secret, that Kurt was there to watch Nelson. It was written in every
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tense line of Kurt's face. A trumpet fanfare heralded the wide serpentine
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sequence of turns which led to Mike's first jump sequence, a triple-toe loop
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followed immediately by another triple toe-loop.
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Dick Button had watched Mike do his triple toe-loop, triple toe-
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loop combination in practice and was announcing it to the audience, "you know
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Jim, this Venezuelan boy has a lot of style, but his technique is just not up
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to par with the top skaters...he will be opening with the same jump combination
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Debbie Tumors opens with in her long program and let's see how he does it."
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"Just imagine what Venezuela thinks of this young man, how proud they must be
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Dick" Jim said, reading from his script of mindless chatter.
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Mike felt an enormous tension building in his legs as he made the turn from
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forward to backward in his approach curve for his first triple toe loop. The
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curve felt just right, fast, and he decided right there that if the landing on
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his first triple was okay, he'd throw himself into a quadruple with all his
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strength. Toe pick pole vaulting him neatly into the air for his first triple,
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Dick Button murmured "nice" into the microphone and then with a burst of
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energy, in attempt to get all the height necessary to complete all 4 rotations
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of the quadruple toe-loop, Mike threw himself high into the air, pulling in his
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arms swiftly, and landed on one foot after completing all four rotations, the
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first person to do so in any competition. As he landed he knew he'd done it
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because the sound of his music had been replaced by a deafening roar coming
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from the audience. Like a tidal wave, he rode the sound into his next sequence
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which was a comparatively pedestrian double Axel followed by a flying camel
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spin. Dick Button stammered and stuttered for a few seconds until he realized
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fully what he'd just seen. "I don't believe it" he said to the live viewers at
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home, "this boy has just done something no one has ever accomplished, a
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quadruple toe-loop, and I didn't even know it was in his program!" "Not only
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did he do a quadruple toe-loop, he did it in the exquisitely difficult
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combination out of a triple toe loop...It was simply divine and totally unheard
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of, I mean never seen before...just gorgeous..." Dick continued, violating his
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self imposed taboo on using words like "divine" and "exquisite" in his
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commentary. Jim Macaw chimed in with an idiotic "but what does this mean Dick,
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does he have a chance for a medal?" As Dick was explaining that no, even
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perfect marks could not pull a person from 10th place into 3rd, unless the top
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skater did "very poorly, very poorly" Dick repeated as Jim said "very poorly"
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like a parrot in training.
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Finally, after a minute into his program the din began to settle down and Mike
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found his place with the music. Several fans were still on their feet and
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Dorothy Hambone was clapping her hands and saying over and over to her husband,
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"I don't believe it, I just don't believe it!" Kurt felt a surge of excitement,
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brought on largely by the audience who was making more noise than anything he'd
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ever expected at a figure skating event, and realized that Mike had done
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something extraordinary in his opening jump. People around him were saying the
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word "quadruple" and Kurt realized that Mike must have done the first one ever.
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Going into a triple flip jump, Mike became twisted in the air and fell off his
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landing edge, skidding on his ass toward the barrier. The audience "ooohed" in
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sympathy but he got up in one smooth motion, and after just making history in
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his triple-
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quadruple combination, he almost didn't notice he fell. Another slip caused him
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to double out of a triple Salchow and a minute later he did the same with a
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triple Loop. "This will effect his score" Dick said, still very excited about
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the quadruple, "but who cares about scores when you are headed for the history
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books." "I'll say" Jim chimed in, picking up on Dick's uncontained excitement.
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Mike ended his program with a well-
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centered scratch spin and the audience was on its feet. Taking several bows to
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the tremendous ovation, there was a delay before the next competitor could get
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on the ice, Christopher Blowman. Before leaving the ice, while taking his bows
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to a tremendous ovation, Mike held both his arms in the air and looked up to
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where Kurt was sitting and said to himself out loud, "I did it, I did it."
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Mike's scores were high enough to pull him into 5th place. After Brian
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Boichaser accepted his gold medal, he skated to the side of the ice where Mike
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was standing, and raised Mike's arm for everyone to see. Boichaser was quite a
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sportsman to relinquish part of his moment of deserved glory to an unknown
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Venezuelan competitor. In the news for the next few days, film clips of the 2
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Brians would be followed by 10 seconds of Mike Velez performing the first
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quadruple jump in competition. "Mike Velez, the dual national Venezuelan who
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came out of nowhere to capture the spirit of these Olympic games" the announcer
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said, happy to have a sunny story to report.
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Mike had to push through the crowd to get to the door where he knew Kurt was
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waiting. Finally he got up to him, through many people. "Look, I'll meet you
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back in my room, in an hour or so, when this is all over." Most of the
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reporters were gathered around Brian Boichaser but the people from the foreign
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press, as well as members of the skating world who couldn't get close to
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Boichaser, came up to get a look at Mike, and to congratulate him. It seemed
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like a dream and Mike, all of a sudden, wanted to be alone for a few minutes.
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He thought of his mother and what this would have meant to her.
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Students back at Potsdam were planning a Michael Velez day while Mike's father
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was receiving calls from people he didn't know, asking for interviews. He
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hadn't even been watching the TV, as Mike suspected, but under the
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circumstances, realizing that his faggot son was a hero, he rose to the
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occasion and pretended that he had been following Mike's skating
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enthusiastically all along. Several people watching at the bar in Lake Placid,
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were surprised to hear that Joe Velez even had a son, let alone that he was now
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an Olympic record holder.
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Nelson fell during his first downhill run and was almost happy he didn't have
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to finish with a time that was much slower than other competitors. He was
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anxious to get back to Aspen where his father had promised him he'd buy him a
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new sports car, no matter how he finished.
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Spot lights glare on an empty patch of ice as Kurt emerges in a pair of white
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tights, a pack of white poodles scampering along at his heels. He circles the
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10 barrels that are placed in the center of the ice as the music builds
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dramatically. The poodles try to keep up with him but keep slipping. They take
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short cuts through the center, much to the audience's amusement. Then as Kurt
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takes his leap over the barrels, the poodles jump on top of them and hop from
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barrel to barrel to meet their trainer who is waiting to make his entrance
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behind the curtain. Trainer and dogs come out and the dogs perform a precision
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routine where they jump through hoops and over each other, and through the
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hollow barrels. A large hoop is set a flame and hung over the barrels as Kurt
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skates out again, lights lowered this time, spotlights causing the sequins on
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his black costume to glitter. A drum roll begins and Kurt jumps over the
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barrels and through the hoop, his three minutes of skating completed for the
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night, done for the salary of $35,000 a year.
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Festive island music fills the arena as forty skaters come on in feathered
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South Seas-via-Hollywood costumes, shaking and dancing across the ice to the
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rhythm of jungle drums. A pirate appears and scares away the merry-making
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islanders, but soon he's challenged by Errol Flynn in the form of Mike Velez.
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After an extended sword fighting sequence, both men skating and skidding around
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the ice, Mike runs his opponent through at a climactic moment and skates a
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dynamic victor's solo as the islanders gyrate joyously in the background. The
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number has been carefully planned to bring the audience to a fever pitch for
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Mike's arrival, and when he skates, the audience swoons. Mike finishes his
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number to thunderous applause and heads for his dressing room to change into
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another costume for his final number of the evening.
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The South American tour of Holiday on Ice netted twice as much money compared
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with the previous year, all because of Mike Velez. He took his already
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excellent style and turned it into something blatantly sexual. His acting
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ability to play macho roles to the hilt, rare in most male skaters, exuded a
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sexuality that drove audiences wild.
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"We've got to talk about this" Mike turned to Kurt, who was peeling off his
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eyeliner, his part in the show finished for the evening. Kurt's contract for a
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solo act was not renewed for the following year since he refused to go to one
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of the European divisions and perform his barrel jumping act there, without
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Mike. The show offered Mike a raise of a hundred thousand dollars, making his
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yearly salary three hundred thousand, if he'd stay on for a second year and
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repeat the South American tour, where he was most popular. Mike didn't want to
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see Kurt return to Innsbruck, and he knew Kurt was getting a tired of barrel
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jumping. He wanted to find the words to tell Kurt that he wanted him to stay
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with him on the tour. "It's all because of you Kurt, that I had the guts to try
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a quad in the first place," Mike said. "You know," he continued, "if I hadn't
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done that one jump, I probably wouldn't have been noticed by anyone and if I'd
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gotten in a show at all, I would have been at the bottom of the barrel, making
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what Gina makes, twenty-two a year." Kurt sat listening, nodding his head,
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hoping to hear what he wanted to hear. Mike said in a matter of fact tone,
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"even for the three hundred thousand Kirk baby, I can't do it without you
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here." Kurt let his breath out in relief. "Okay then, I'll stay," he said.
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During their second year in South America with Holiday on Ice, Mike was still a
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popular figure with the crowds that came to see the show, and many came
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specifically to see Mike Velez, one of their own, in the show. Kurt was happy,
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using his free time to read about the culture of the various South American
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cities through which they travelled. Even the dogs, now poodling their way
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around in a European tour, were happy, because they never liked sharing their
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act with Kurt in the first place. Mike and Kurt left the show a year later and
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bought a house together in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they started a bicycle
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business.
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THE END
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