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All fans of ice skating that have passed the & ldquo; & rdquo forty; remember the note & ldquo; Battle of Carmen & rdquo ;, one of the highlights of the 1988 Calgary Olympics.
Tuesday 10 November 2015 6 minutes reading time
Katarina Witt, the sensual East German, he was definitely the best on & rsquo; American Debi Thomas, who all & rsquo; & vintage ventured ograve; a challenge which appears unlikely, using the same musical accompaniment to the tune of Bizet's Carmen and remedying a drubbing. The US does not and & ograve; over the bronze medal, also exceeded by Canadian Elizabeth Manley, who, according to many, he even earned the podium step pi & ugrave; high in virt & ugrave; a free program exciting, the best of the race.
Most fans will have & agrave; kept the & rsquo; image of the unfortunate American color, convinced that now govern the medical profession at a clinic, a dream for which he had abandoned skating. Debi, in fact, hanging on a nail shoes immediately after the post-Olympic World Cup in Budapest, dedicated himself & ograve; studies at the prestigious universities & agrave; California at Stanford, as was most & ugrave; sometimes said in the glossy American broadcasters eighties.
Thomas was not completely focused on the skating, but rather was devoted to the study, was pursuing a professional career, probably a family, children and mainly for these reasons had suffered the disappointment of defeat, or at least that was the message that the media stars and strips, in a & rsquo; era of the Cold War, had wanted to disclose.
If indeed we are part of that group of people who dreamed of the days of our Debi style Grey & rsquo; s Anatomy & egrave; time to recognize bitterly that things went differently because the story does not seem absolutely directed towards a happy ending.
You & egrave; learned in recent days thanks to a program broadcast by the channel of Youtube & rsquo; issuing American OWN Oprah Winfrey, known talk show host in the US. Debi Thomas & egrave; was recently protagonist of & rsquo; last episode of & ldquo; Iyanla: Fix My Life & rdquo ;, a reality transmitted from & rsquo; issuer in which the life coach Iyanla Vanzant has put a strain on the & rsquo; self-esteem of the world champion of 1986 in an attempt to revive the fortunes of her life.
Debi, today quarantottenne, lives in a camper in the area of ​​the Appalachian Mountains with his fellow alcoholic and you're not exercising the medical profession for which he had abandoned skating competitions. It & rsquo; veteran of two divorces and, because of the poor economic conditions in which versa, & egrave; He was deprived of the custody of & rsquo; only son, now eighteen, who had her first husband.
In the videos available on the YouTube channel of OWN, we learn that Debi has unfortunately lost several jobs in US hospitals because of his character grumpy and that, for the same reason, he had to stop the & rsquo; & agrave activities; private that he had started in 2010.
The life coach who leads the reality has proved in a rather hard to put medalist Olympic meet its responsibilities & agrave ;, inviting her to a & rsquo; analysis of some of the important decisions taken in the past (not least to give up the sport after defeat Calgary), assuming between the & rsquo; but Debi is suffering from a bipolar disorder, the main cause of problems in everyday life.
In the hope that this experience will really serve to give the shock vital to get back on top, it is hoped that the champion of the past can come back to more & ugrave; soon to live a & rsquo; decent existence, with the support of the many fans who long gone twenty-eight years ago l & rsquo; have sustained in the match against Katarina Witt and that perhaps today the & rsquo; have forgotten.
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