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ALBERTVILLE, France -- Elvis left the building last night, and along with him departed any semblance of predicted order in the Olympic men's figure-skating competition.Elvis would be Elvis Stojko of Canada, the 30th and final performer of the evening. By the time he had exited the Ice Hall in sixth place, men's figure skating had lapsed into terminal vertigo.Kurt Browning, the three-time world champion from Canada, bungled any reasonable chance at a gold medal.Paul Wylie, supposedly the only American without a chance at the gold, established himself as the only American WITH achance.

Later this month, Lisa Wylie and Kevin Mfume will take a romantic cruise to the Bahamas. The trip was planned as their elopement. Instead, the couple will be on their honeymoon. Lisa and Kevin, both raised in West Baltimore, say that when it came time to plan their wedding abroad, neither could bear the thought of marrying so far from family and friends. So they said their vows before the trip in an intimate ceremony in Pikesville. Lisa handled many of the wedding-related tasks herself, designing the invitations, wedding bulletin and a commemorative bookmark for the couple's 40 guests.

The TV Repairman:Some might conclude that months of one-night stands of skating the same routines would get to a performer after a while. But then Paul Wylie, one of the favorites in the Durasoft World Professional Figure Skating Championships at the USAir Arena tomorrow (7 p.m.) remembers his amateur days."You're almost a recluse, six months of training, training, training," he says. "And the pressure. After all that, it came down to a competition spread over a few days and, in effect, what you did determined your life and your career."

ALBERTVILLE, France -- It started from somewhere down by the ice and worked its way to the rafters.The bolt of noise just kept rising after Paul Wylie finally landed the triple jump, finally silenced all the doubts of a career in the 3 1/2 -revolution whir of navy blue.The guy who always falls didn't. Not this night. Kurt Browning would drop. And so would Christopher Bowman. And so would Todd Eldredge.But there was Wylie at the end, a 5-foot-4 elf on silver blades, standing and smiling and grabbing hold of the 1992 Winter Olympics last night.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Imperfection will land Paul Wylie in law school. Outrageousness will put Christopher Bowman a step closer to laying siege to the Olympic Games in Albertville, France.Those are the stakes today at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.Wylie, the Harvard graduate, the favorite of the sport's ruling class, stumbled to fourth in yesterday's original program at the Orlando Arena.Bowman, Elvis on blades, crossed himself one moment, hugged a female television reporter the next and soared to first.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Christopher Bowman works best when he works alone.The gossip and the rumors that envelop the bad boy of American figure skating fade the moment he steps on the ice. Give him a spotlight, dress him in black and then stand back and watch.Yesterday, Bowman ended yet another tumultuous week in his career by winning the free-skate final and claiming his second men's title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.This was hardly the best of Bowman, but the show was good enough to send him to next month's Winter Olympics in Albertville, France.

With Jennifer Wylie back in top form, the fourth-ranked Dulaney volleyball team continues to show it will be a state-title contender once again. Wylie, a senior outside hitter, slammed 15 kills and an ace yesterday to lead the host Lions to their second three-game sweep of a ranked opponent. Senior setter Bruna Fonseca added 20 assists and five kills, and sophomore outside hitter Sarah McKinley had nine kills and won 14 points on her serve, in Dulaney's 15-12, 15-9, 15-12 victory over No. 5 Centennial.

Dulaney had something to prove when Severna Park came calling for yesterday's nonleague volleyball match and the Lions did in a big way. The host and No. 10 Lions swept the No. 5 Falcons, 15-1, 15-8 and 15-6. The win left Dulaney 2-0 and Severna Park 0-3. Senior hitter Jennifer Wylie proved she is over a foot injury that kept her out most of last season. Yesterday, she dominated at the net with a match-high 20 kills along with four aces and 17 digs. Bruna Fonseca, the second of four Lions seniors, had 30 assists and eight digs.

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