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Show Cook to don skates in London Skating Association representative for women's individual events at the competition organized by the National Skating Association of Great Britain. Skate Electric invita- By TOM HARALDSEN BOUNTIFUL-World Bronze Medalist Holly Cook of Bountiful will leave Thursday for London, England to represent the United States at the Skate Electric Competition. Com-petition. The event runs October 1-4. Holly is the United States Figure Championships. This will be Holly's first competition since medaling at Worlds in Halifax, Nova Scotia, last March. . After that competition, Holly spent two months touring with members of the U.S. Figure Skating Team. She returned from a 25-city tour saying she wanted to "get back on Cloud One to consider the well-earned well-earned berth she earned as a World . Class skater. Following that return, she announced an-nounced her intentions to continue as a national and USFSA competitor com-petitor an an open house sponsored by Bountiful City. Holly is a member of the Utah Figure Skating Club of Bountiful and continues to train with her coach, Kris Sherard, at the Bountiful Boun-tiful Recreation Center. tions were extended to competitors from member nations of the International Interna-tional Skating Union, and include Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, West and East Germany, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Skating will be held at the Richmond Ice Rink in London. During her last trip to Europe last November, Holly placed second overall at the French Trophy Lali-que Lali-que competition in Paris, missing a victory by the votes of only two judges. Since that time, of course, she has won bronze medals at both the U.S. and World Figure Skating r |