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	Debi Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Debi Thomas, M.D. (born March 25, 1967) was a figure skater and was the first African American to win a medal at the Winter Olympics.
		She won the bronze medal at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary in the year that Katarina Witt won the gold; both skated to the music of Bizet's Carmen.
		While a pre-med student at Stanford University, Thomas won both the 1986 U.S. National and World Figure Skating titles, defeating Tiffany Chin and Witt respectively, becoming the first and only African American to hold those titles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Debi_Thomas (193 words)

	ESPN.com - SKATING - Where are they now? Debi Thomas
		Thomas burst onto the figure skating scene in 1986, when she won the national and world championships during her freshman year at Stanford University.
		Debi Thomas: That was probably one of the best experiences that I've ever had in skating.
		Debi Thomas: It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.
	espn.go.com /skating/news/2000/0209/345701.html (1017 words)

	Thomas lost on the ice but wins game of life
		Debi Thomas more than has her hands full with things these days -- she has a 7-month-old son, Luc, and awaits word where she will do her medical residency.
		Thomas won a world championship while she was a full-time student at Stanford.
		Thomas stuck to her plan of touring for four years and then going on to medical school, which she found to be more challenging than a clean long program.
	www.freep.com /sports/98olympics/qdebi20.htm (1007 words)

	CNNSI.com - SI Online - This Week's Issue of Sports Illustrated - Catching Up With: Debi Thomas - Tuesday July 25, 2000 ...
		Debi Thomas and Brian Boitano won Olympic berths at a nationals marred by its schedule
		The big question on the women's side was whether Debi Thomas, who has taken a leave of absence from Stanford and has been training in Boulder, Colo., since July in preparation for the Olympics, could regain her title from defending champ Jill Trenary.
		When the card and 49ers jersey -- D. Thomas, 16 -- were finally presented to Thomas by McGowan, she peered at the signatures, half amazed.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /features/cover/news/2000/07/21/catchingup_debbithomas (1782 words)

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		....Debi Thomas was the first skater to dethrone Katarina Witt from the World title in 1987.
		....Debi Thomas, in 1988, was the first African - American athlete to win an Olympic medal in the Winter Games.
		....Debi Thomas in 2000 was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
	www.pdm-blackice.com /continuedyk.html (650 words)

	Olympic medalist Debi Thomas graduates from Stanford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		STANFORD -- The fl robe and mortarboard were a far cry from her dazzling skating attire, but for Debi Thomas, the feeling of achievement was the same.
		Reporters and fans were captivated by her physical presence -- she was the first fl woman ever to make the U.S. Olympic figure-skating team -- and by her dogged insistence on becoming the first American female skating champion in 30 years to attend college while competing.
		Thomas, who recently bought a house near Half Moon Bay, plans to take the next year off to earn some money skating professionally, and to prepare her applications for medical school.
	www.stanford.edu /group/news/relaged/910618Arc1293.html (580 words)

	Stanford Magazine > July/August 2002
		Thomas picked up a world championship and two national championships during her freshman year at Stanford, then stopped out for a year to train for the 1988 Winter Olympics.
		Now 35, Thomas says her life is “entirely different” from the skating years.
		The hospital is understaffed, Thomas says, and her days (and nights) there are exhausting.
	stanfordalumni.org /news/magazine/2002/julaug/classnotes/thomas.html (389 words)

	Debi Thomas
		Thomas was also the only recent skater to pursue a full time college degree program while seeking national and world skating titles.
		Debi Thomas comes from a family where both parents worked professionally in the computer field and her brother is an astrophyscist (Clark, 1986).
		Debi Thomas is not afraid to give advice to any of the young skaters out there now.
	www.wvu.edu /~physed/blacksports/dthomas.htm (385 words)

	Jet: Debi Thomas, Olympic skater, graduates from medical school, gives birth to son - Brief Article
		Former skating champion Debi Thomas and her husband, Chris Bequette, have become parents for the first time.
		Thomas gave birth to a son named Christopher Jules Bequette II at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
		Thomas will forever be remembered as a skating champion.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n9_v92/ai_19614046 (220 words)

	Better Nutrition: Olympic skater says: "Be a champion of health" and eat beans - Debi Thomas
		Olympic medalist, medical doctor, and new mother -- former champion figure skater, Debi Thomas, certainly seems to have a knack for "doing it all." A resident of Little Rock, Arkansas, Thomas was recently in New York promoting the health benefits of one of our most healthful, but, arguably, least respected foods -- beans.
		She told Better Nutrition, "I have friends who are like, `you eat beans.'" To this Thomas responds, "try them, you'll like them." After all, beans are low in calories, low in fat, high in com lex carbohydrates, and a good source of fiber, folate, and protein.
		Thomas says that when she was in training, beans were a big part of her diet.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FKA/is_n1_v60/ai_20152534 (743 words)

	Women's Sports Foundation ATHLETES
		In 1986, Thomas also became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championship.
		Thomas is also a three-time World Professional Figure Skating Champion.
		After graduating from Stanford University with a degree in engineering in 1991, Thomas is currently a medical student at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, and has future plans of joining NASA’s astronaut training program.
	womenssportsfoundation.org /cgi-bin/iowa/athletes/record.html?record=71 (184 words)

	Debi Thomas, Olympic Bronze Medalist
		Debi Thomas became the first fl athlete to win a Winter Olympic medal — a bronze at Calgary in 1988.
		In 1991, she graduated from Stanford University and Debi who'd been touring with Stars on Ice officially retired in 1992 to concentrate on her dream of becoming a doctor.
		Debi attempted a brief comeback at the 1996 Battle of the Sexes but it was a disappointing performance.
	www.blackwebportal.com /wire/DA.cfm?ArticleID=587 (358 words)

	DOEnetwork.com > The Garden > Sports & Fitness
		She was competing at the 2000 Olympic track and field trials in the long jump event, when she saw a flyer for a USA Bobsled team tryout conducted by Bonny Warner.
		Fourteen years after figure skater Debi Thomas became the first fl to win a Winter Games medal, Vonetta became the first fl athlete to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics (Salt Lake City, 2002).
		Debi Thomas burst onto the figure skating scene in 1986, where she won the national and world championships during her freshman year at Stanford University.
	www.aakulturezone.com /connections/first/sports/unique.html (430 words)

	Thomas, Zamboni in Hall of Fame - 2/12/00
		CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Debi Thomas, the 1986 world champion and 1988 Olympic bronze medalist, was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame on Friday at the U.S. championships.
		Thomas, a two-time national champion, now lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she completed her medical internship and has applied for a residency in orthopaedic surgery.
		Thomas, married with a two-year-old son, no longer skates.
	www.detnews.com /2000/sports/0002/12/02120129.htm (244 words)

	Speedskater aims to build on teammates' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Posterity was Debi Thomas' for the taking, and the nation held its collective breath.
		At the age of 17, Thomas became the first African-American to win a medal in a national figure-skating championship.
		When Thomas was 5, she told her mother that she would be a doctor and a champion figure skater.
	www.jsonline.com /sports/oly98/witty21198.stm (941 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		She won a bronze medal in figure skating in the 1988 Olympics, and held both national and world figure skating titles.
		I think anybody who's ever been in the sport of figure skating knows that it's a highly subjective sport, and I think we've all been at the end of what we thought was not necessarily fair as the way we were judged.
		BLITZER: Debi, as I look at some of the pictures we've been showing of you from that 1988 performance of yours, I remember how proud all of us were of your Olympic performance.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0202/15/wbr.01.html (3343 words)

	Jet: This Week In Black History.(Debi Thomas and William Hastie)(Brief Article)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Debi Thomas, figure skater, became the first Black woman to win the world figure skating championship on this day.
		Earlier that year, at age 18, Thomas became the first Black ice skating champion to win the U.S. Figure Skating Championship.
		Thomas was born in 1967 in Poughkeepsie, NY, but later moved to San Jose, CA, where she learned to figure skate.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:72610380&refid=ip_almanac_hf (198 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		That was when American Debi Thomas beat the German and became the first and only African-American to win a world title in figure skating.
		Thomas, then a pre-med student at Stanford, won her title in Geneva, Switzerland, three days before her 19th birthday.
		Thomas led after the short program but botched three jumps in the long programs, settling for bronze.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/century/032299.htm (358 words)

	- The Skaters on Figure Skating's Greatest Hits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the 1988 Olympics, USA champion Debi Thomas and East German champion Katerina Witt both skated to music from Bizet's most famous masterpiece.
		Second, it was a unique moment to watch two skaters compete head to head with the same music at the same event.
		Debi's interpretation of Carmen was more contemporary yet in the end, it was Katerina's Carmen that took the Gold.
	www.pyramidmusic.com /Skaters.html (838 words)

	Debi Thomas Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	www.artisticnudity.com /encyclopedia/Debi_Thomas (348 words)

	The Salisbury Post • (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Room seven, 'In An English Garden' by Debi Thomas of Debi Thomas Designs, pays homage to the incomparable floral beauty of spring.
		The room had soft blue-gray walls and a mix of crisp, soft cotton fabrics in coral and blue prints and florals.
		Thomas used a combination of perennial favorites, she wrote, to create a guest room "that pays homage to the incomparable floral beauty of spring."
	www.salisburypost.com /print/287292038627506.php (674 words)

	Survivor Chichen: All Stars
		I know from past experience that she is a person you can trust and someone if you get in on her early enough and become a good enough friend with her that she will never lie to you and become a really good partner with in the game.
		Jo-Ann and Debi chatted on about how being a real SURVIVOR, is trying to survive in a rundown motel with roaches, dirty sheets, and the prostitute in the next room (As quoted from DEBI; Day One; Episode One).
		Debi: Well Joie, I was thinking when I was talking to John earlier when we were cutting branches, and I was wondering if maybe you’d like to be in an alliance with John, Brandon and I? I haven’t asked
	www.survivorchichenallstars.sphosting.com /EpisodeOne.htm (5077 words)

	The Spokesman-Review.com
		In her resigned trudge to a medal that, inevitably, was not going to be gold at the Calgary Olympics, the one-time world champion distilled the unwieldy spirit of the Sequined Science down to its very essence.
		So for Debi Thomas, her gold medal in '88 was the public disapproval f
		In fact, once the echo of those boos subsided, nobody much remembered who Debi Thomas was in the first place.
	www.spokesmanreview.com /news-story.asp?date=102502&ID=s1241331&cat=section.sports (959 words)

	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Debi Thomas: MAIN
		An ABC Sports article about Debi Thomas' life -- her skating career and what came after.
		A queen of the ice, Debi Thomas was one of the most popular female sports...
		STANFORD -- The fl robe and mortarboard were a far cry from her dazzling skating attire,...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/main.adp?sid=70550 (301 words)

	Olympic Memorable Moments: Katarina Witt
		The 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary showcased the highly anticipated battle between Witt and American rival Debi Thomas, winner of the 1986 world championships.
		The door was open for Thomas to take the gold, but her choice of a risky performance proved costly.
		Witt gave up her amateur status after her performance in 1988, but when professionals were allowed back to Olympic competition in Lillehammer in 1994, she returned and finished seventh.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/02olwitt.html (424 words)

	Jet: Debi Thomas, Olympic skater, graduates from medical school, gives birth to son.(Brief Article)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jet: Debi Thomas, Olympic skater, graduates from medical school, gives birth to son.(Brief Article)@ HighBeam Research
		Debi Thomas, Olympic skater, graduates from medical school, gives birth to son.(Brief Article)
		About the same time Thomas became a mother, she also gained the...
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:19614046&refid=ink_tptd_mag (163 words)

	Articles and News About Skating - SkateLog.com - Inline Skating - Quad Roller Skating
		Today is the birthday of world champion ice figure skater Debi Thomas, who in 1986 became both a world and United States champion and was named Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year.
		In 1988 Debi won a Olympic bronze medal in Alberta, Canada and in 1992 she retired from skating.
		She graduated in 1997 and Dr. Debi Thomas now resides in Little Rock, Arkansas with her husband and son.
	www.skatelog.com /2004/03/25.html (532 words)

	Welcome to Pacific Empire Chorus Web Site: Located in Petaluma California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With roughly 20 Regional championships and many other placements at both the Regional and International levels, Kathy, Joyce, Kim and Debi thought they’d step out of the box, or shall we say, “see what this combination could do”.
		They are coaches, have been chorus directors, and all know that hard work and focus are the keys to success.
		Although they will be representing Region 12 in competition, they are affiliated with three different regions - Joyce and Debi with Region 12, Kathy with Region 13, and Kim with Region 24.
	www.pacificempire.org /q-act4.htm (155 words)

	Ready for the Praise Parade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas said the production would be an “awesome” opportunity for about 100 people from Dickson who will be participating.
		Having professional artists involved is also impressive, Thomas said.
		Many of the elements are one-of-a-kind, Thomas said.
	www.dicksonherald.com /news/stories/20030919/919_parade.shtml (651 words)

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