The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold

It's been a day of disappointment...

...at the U.S. Women's Figure

Skating Championship.

Jacqueline Dorsey should easily

repeat last year's victory.

Well, let's not get too

far ahead of ourselves...

...because as we've already seen

here today, anything can happen.

Okay, now, listen to me.

I don't want you to push it.

Take out everything but the first triple.

Doubles will win this.

-And the spin at the transition.

-No.

It is not a required element.

You can't push it.

The most important thing

is to skate a clean program.

No. The most important thing

is to win.

-And that is why--

-Mom.

It's not worth winning

if you don't have to fight for it.

I think you were the one

who taught me that.

Well, who knew you ever listened?

Do me a favour...

...just try to come back without

too much ice on your butt, okay?

As of now, it's hers to lose.

Well, I'm glad you said it, Oksana,

because I think...

...her best skating is still to come.

And that, friends,

is straight from her father's mouth.

Ladies and gentlemen, on the ice:

Two-time U.S. singles champion

Jackie Dorsey.

She usually begins her routine

with her most difficult element:

The triple axel.

And she nailed it.

Now she's lining up

for her first double combination.

Unbelievable. She replaced it

with a triple-triple combination.

She is not just beating this

competition, she is destroying it.

Just one more jump in her program

and she's home free.

-Why isn't she getting up?

-I think she's really hurt.

Ladies and gentlemen,

please stay in your seats.

Get back.

Please remain seated.

As I suspected, the fracture

was to both bones in the lower leg.

I wouldn't worry.

Though the break was complicated,

you should be up...

-...and walking around in no time.

-That's not what I asked you.

Let's just take it one step at a time,

okay, honey?

You have to walk

before you can glide.

Don't care about walking.

Next year is an Olympic year.

And I am not retiring.

-Tell them.

-Nobody said anything about retiring.

I've done everything I can do,

Jackie.

-The rest is up to you.

-Good.

Then we should have nothing

to worry about.

Good. Now keep your head up

and really, really lift off this time.

-Better.

-Better? That was amazing.

For a double, it was okay.

But for a triple, it sucked.

Jackie, the fact

that after only four months...

...you can even hit

a double is amazing.

Doubles are meaningless.

This isn't pairs.

In hockey they'd call her

for high-sticking.

Believe me, what I wouldn't give

for a whistle and a penalty box.

All right, let's go again.

Jackie.

-Are you all right?

-Not a word.

You cannot keep pushing yourself

like this.

If you don't like it,

you don't have to watch.

Why are you always

so damn stubborn?

Because I take after my father.

I suppose that accounts

for the sweet disposition also.

No. That's all Mom.

I know you don't wanna talk

about this...

-...but what if you can't ever--?

-Right, I don't wanna talk about that.

All I'm asking is that you take

some time off, all right? Rest.

Don't think about skating for a while.

See if there's something more to life.

Nice. Especially coming from you,

who built this multi-rinked palace.

-Jackie.

-What?

And I don't want any of your

hockey goons messing up my ice.

Hey, those hockey goons

are helping to pay for this ice.

-She'll never go.

-She'll go.

Hey.

Where the hell are my skates?

-Good workout?

-No.

The gym was a total joke.

Then I tried to do some laps--

Vacation, Jack.

Muscles are supposed to atrophy.

Just look at Elisa. Her butt

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