Target Stars on Ice Glide into OC (Orange County Today) About the Anaheim SOI show. Includes an incredible 15 photo slideshow! Check out photos from "Bridge", "Smooth" and more! There are 6 beautiful photos of Kristi - more than any other skater :-) Other photos feature Tara (3), Ilia & Katia (3), Kurt, Bechke & Petrov, and Roca & Sur.
Stars on Ice (Arizona Republic 1-12-00) Mostly about Ilia Kulik, but it does contain a small pic of Katia, Scott, Kristi & Tara w/ their arms around each other.
The ice skaters cometh (LA Times 1-8-00) Kristi says this year's program is livelier than in tours past, "It's more of a happier mood. There's disco music in the program and other different types of music for all tastes."
Your pace or mine? (National Post 12-17-99) This article is about celebrity sports couples and reasons they appeal to one another. Kristi and Bret are listed at the end.
Photo: Artistic Impression (Las Vegas Review-Journal 12-17-99) Photo of Kristi, Brian B., Alexei Uramanov and Oksana Baiul at the unveiling of the new figure skating stamp.
TV figure skating has some golden moments (HotCoCo.com 12-11-99) Columist Chuck Barney's "As Seen On TV" article about the A Golden Moment show. Thank you Carolyn for the link!
A Golden Moment (VIEW Magazine Holiday 1999) Kristi, Peggy Fleming, and other skating stars host an evening on ice to help support the fight againest breast cancer.
Figure Skaters Top Endorsement List (USFSA Skating Magazine Oct '99) Kristi is in second place behind Michelle Kwan as the the "most appealing female athletic endorser in the world" in a survey conducted by Burns Sports Celebrity Service
The Women's Sports Foundation, 25 years later (Orange County Register 10-17-99) Brief mention of Kristi in article about how she was one of the athletes to have received help from the foundation.
Sharks getting more attention (San Jose Mercury News 10-8-99) Includes info about Kristi and Bret. They are mentioned in the current ESPN magazine feature about "hockey players who know famous women, and famous women who love hockey".
Ad game compels -- and annoys (Hot Coco 10-4-99) This article is about trends and celebrities in advertising. Scroll down to read why Mervyn's California choose Kristi to be their "pitch person".
Blades on Ice Magazine Skater of the Decade results. Kristi was voted in second place as the "Best Ladies Skater of this Decade - 1990 to 2000", after Michelle Kwan.
Q & A With Barry Manilow (San Francisco Chronicle 9-18-99) Interesting article about Mr. Manilow's songs. Brief mention of Kristi skating in The StarSkates Tribute to the Music of Manilow in the first paragraph.
Celanese Acetate Launches "Newness of Acetate" Campaign (Celanese Acetate website 8-27-99) Has information about the new ad campaign and future advertisements. It features 4 great photos: 2 magazine ads and 2 photos of Kristi with designers Pamela Dennis & Nicole Miller. The article also states "The campaign will extend through the year 2000 in other fashion and trade magazines and promotions." [As an avid collector of these ads, let me say this: "YEA!" :-) Also, after reading this article, it answered my question as to why I couldn't find any more recent ads...LOL]
Mervyn's and The Always Dream Foundation Announce Skating Concert on Ice Full title: Mervyn's California and Kristi Yamaguchi's Always Dream Foundation Announce Extraordinary Skating Concert on Ice at Oakland Arena To Benefit the Fight Against Breast Cancer (Yahoo Finance/Company Press Release 7-21-99)
A Golden Career (IFS Magazine cover story 8'99) This is a great read!
Oakland Colliseum's Top Ten [Greatest Moments] (NBA.com) Scroll down to #2 and read "Yamaguchi Conquers the World". It's about Kristi capturing her second World Title in front of her hometown crowd.
Lipinski steals
show at Big Mac (Denver Post 1-27-99) Excerpt
from article: "...the most impressive skating of the night, at least from
the women, appeared to come from Yamaguchi's movements to a Tchaikovsky
violin concert."