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Michelle Kwan, Dan Jansen and Bonnie Blair to ride on Rose Parade float

By Helene Elliott
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Olympic medalists Michelle Kwan, Bonnie Blair and Dan Jansen will be joined by six American Olympic hopefuls on a Rose Parade float entitled ‘Quest for the Best’ Jan. 1 in Pasadena.

Kwan, a two-time figure skating medalist, and speedskaters Blair (six medals) and Jansen (1994 gold medalist) will share billing on the Anheuser-Busch float with aspiring Olympians Shannon Bahrke (freestyle skiing), Steve Fisher (snowboarding), Steve Holcomb (bobsled), Katherine Reutter (speedskating), Rebecca Sorenson (skeleton) and Marco Sullivan (alpine skiing).

And for fans of the Clydesdales that will pull the float, that lineup will be Dick (wheel horse), Fez (wheel horse), Tim (wheel-body horse), Bernie (wheel-body horse), Alan (body horse), Scooby (swing horse), Mike (swing-lead horse) and Dave (swing-lead horse).

-- 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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