Which channel is The Music of Seal on Ice featuring Brian Boitano on?
The skating rink at Yerba Buena Ice Skating and Bowling Center is empty, except for a lone figure carving crisp, forceful trails in the ice. When you’re whizzing by the rails at 25 miles per hour and doing corkscrews in the air, your takeoffs and landings tend to have power, even if you haven’t competed in the Olympics in 19 years. That’s because Brian Boitano, the gold medalist in the 1988 Calgary Games and a resident San Franciscan, still spends two hours a day on the ice, two hours a day in the gym and has three trainers working with him on Active Release Technique, chiropractic therapy and deep-tissue therapy. Did we mention the nutritionists and the ultimate fighting trainer, too? “I work my ass off to keep it as close to how I used to skate 20 years ago as I can,” Boitano said. “A lot of skaters can’t – they have jobs and kids now. This, for me, is like a full-time job.” The reason comes down to three words: TV skating specials. Boitano’s competitive career is over, but the futur
