A Young Champion

     Today we look at an event occuring on March 22, 1997. On that date at the age of 14 years and 10 months, Tara Lipinski of the United States won the World Figure Skating Championship. A year later she became the youngest individual gold medalist ever at the Winter Olympic Games.

    With her win at the Worlds she did not however launch a long winning streak as many had hoped. She did bump off Michelle Kwan who had won it the year before. She turned professional at an early age and left the amateur circuit for Kwan to dominate for several years afterwords. Kwan would rclaim her title as World champ the following year. We will never see another champion so young as the minimum age was raised jst before Lipinski won her title as she was grandfathered in as the limit was raised.

   The answer to yesterdays trivia question is June 19, 1987 the four team Arena Football league played its first league games. Todays trivia question is what year was the World Figure Skating Championships first held, how many skaters and how many judges were there? The answer in tomorrows daily blog on another football league beginning play.