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Lysacek heeds hand, skates clean short program

By Bonnie DeSimone
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, October 20, 2005

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Evan Lysacek used the back of his left hand as a memo pad Thursday night, scrawling a message in blue ballpoint ink that marched unevenly from his knuckles to his wrist. Instead of the usual mundane reminder to buy milk or call Mom, it was a motto to compete by: "I Skate Clean Programs." Lysacek might have been asking for motion sickness if he'd tried to read the message in the middle of a flying sit spin or a triple jump. The idea seemed to sink in, however, as he skat ...

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