Figure skater Christopher Bowman found dead

[Bluebear]

I will remember him like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbIxQPRIKA0
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Christopher Bowman, the former U.S. figure skating champion dubbed "Bowman the Showman" for his flair on the ice, died Thursday of a possible drug overdose, authorities said. He was 40.

Bowman was pronounced dead at 12:06 p.m., said Coroner's Lt. Joe Bale, who wasn't immediately able to provide more details about the possible drug overdose. Bowman's body was found at a motel in the North Hills section of Los Angeles, and an autopsy was planned for this weekend, Bale said.

"He just passed away in his sleep," Bowman's mother, Joyce, told the Detroit Free Press, which first reported details of his death. "His friend told me that he was fine. He just went to bed and didn't wake up."

Bowman, a former child actor, was one of figure skating's bigger personalities in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Immensely talented, with a gift for performance that few others could match, he won the U.S. men's figure skating titles in 1989 and 1992, and was runner-up in 1987 and 1991.

He also won a silver medal at the 1989 world championships, and a bronze the next year. He skated in the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics, finishing seventh in 1988 and fourth in 1992.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080111/ap_on_sp_ot/fig_skating_champion_death&printer=1

[Swamp Rat]

1. What a beautiful performance!

Thanks for posting.

[Berry Cool]

2. Sad, sad thing.

I remember him. All the talent in the world. Went to waste because he couldn't avoid the lure of the "Hollywood lifestyle."

[hlthe2b]

3. So very sad...... With all his talent, he just couldn't escape his

demons, whatever they might have been. RIP, Chris.