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Evan Lysacek’s short program music: Firebird

By Helene Elliott
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Sometimes it pays to hang around hockey rinks.

While the Kings were doing laps Monday on the Olympic rink at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, world figure skating championEvan Lysacek was stretching and preparing for his practice session.

He was especially eager to get onto the ice because he said he had just gotten his short program music: Stravinsky’s ‘Firebird,’ a piece chosen by his coach, Frank Carroll, and choreographer, Lori Nichol.

‘It’s definitely a stretch for me, but I’m excited about it,’ Lysacek said.

I’ll try to peek over to the figure skaters’ rink in between the Kings’ sessions on the NHL-sized rink.

-- Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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