Robert talks with Tom Weir (WEER), a sports columnist and general assignment writer for USA Today who is based in Nashville, Tennessee...which was the site of this weekend's US National Figure Skating Championships. Fourteen-year-old Tara Lipinski (lih-PIN-skee) won the Ladies' Championship, and Todd Eldredge won the men's. Weir talks about the politics of the sport, and the controversy surrounding the quadruple jump that was attempted in the men's competition but ultimately disallowed.
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