| Brian Boitano is shown here skating his short program on the way to capturing his fourth consecutive United States figure skating championship in 1988. Later that year Boitano won the Olympic gold medal in the men’s figure skating competition. Winner of world titles in 1986 and 1988, Boitano also won a 1990 Emmy Award with German skater Katarina Witt for a collaborative television adaptation of Carmen, the opera by French composer Georges Bizet. |