Only With Passion: Figure Skating's Most Winning Champion on Competition and Life
by:
E.M. Swift (author)
Katarina Witt (author)
Some people will remember her best for her Playboy pictorial, but Katarina Witt's greatest claim to fame is her peerless record as a figure skating champion. During her astonishing career, she won two Olympic gold medals, four world championships, and eight national championships. Even as she...
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Some people will remember her best for her Playboy pictorial, but Katarina Witt's greatest claim to fame is her peerless record as a figure skating champion. During her astonishing career, she won two Olympic gold medals, four world championships, and eight national championships. Even as she prepared for her post-skating career, she remained competitive. In this candid autobiography, the East German–born beauty describes how she developed her skills and balanced them with her need for fulfillment and companionship. Witt's strong streak of independence gives Only with Passion a vibrancy that her skating fans will recognize.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781586482749 (1586482742)
Publish date: October 17th 2005
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
OK, once I got past the highly debatable subtitle and rather ridiculously sexed-up cover picture, this little book from 2005 was actually quite an enjoyable read. A full biography it is not, but Katarina is not the first female skater - see, for instance, Barbara Ann Scott - to combine scattered bio...
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