Keeping warm is another serious problem for young skaters who practice outdoors.
"The training pictures in 1970s look funny nowadays," Bao laughed, "we wore too much to make moves on ice, but we felt so cold if we did not wear enough. We could even hardly unbuckle our pants in the toilet; our hands were numb."
Progressing all the way from Jilin to the national team, Bao flew quickly to the Olympics. Before she was recruited to the training camp in Japan for Lake Placid, Bao had never skated on indoor ice.
Bao's first skating dress, hand-made by her coach Miao Ruifu using dacron fabrics, was inelastic and inconvenient for jumping, spinning and splitting.
Miao contacted many textile mills to customize a nylon dress for Bao. In addition, Miao was also in charge of choreography, music clips, and even the skaters' daily life, in addition to playing the role of mentor and tutor.
SKATING BRINGS NO VICTORY, BUT LOVE FOR THE SPORT
Coming back from the Lake Placid, Bao was determined to skate above 15 in the ladies' singles in the next Olympics.
"The following four years were the most difficult period of my life," said Bao, "and the most frustrating period as well. Me and my coach, we worked so hard to get better results."
She flew to the United States and Germany for better training conditions in 1981, but was injured right before the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in 1982.
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