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...each would probably like to redo at least part of the re-entry. Ekaterina Gordeeva, two-time gold-medal winner in pairs skating, watched at a skating rink as her 28-year-old partner and husband died in her arms of undiagnosed heart disease, in November 1995. Oksana Baiul, the pixie 16-year-old Ukrainian orphan who struck gold in the singles, celebrated with a nonstop party that ended when she wrapped her green Mercedes-Benz around a few innocent conifers while under the influence in Connecticut. Baiul, now 20, tells TIME she is an alcoholic, and she is trying...
...interview was taped two weeks ago in Colorado--along with some skating, for which Baiul, Gordeeva and Katerina Witt, according to a published report, refused to be in the same building as Harding; Tonya was banished to an outdoor rink. This lovely episode of Soap Stars on Ice will air Feb. 5, just before opening ceremonies at the Winter Games in Nagano, Japan...
...Baiul says lots of people were there, telling her to cool it. She just wasn't ready to listen. She stopped training, and when she did hit the ice, she was a bear cub on skates. "I was really miserable because I don't understand what the hell is going on with my body," says Baiul, who can be so charmingly candid and emotional that her body contorts in punctuation marks. What happened was that she had grown 4 in. and 20 lbs., and if there was a new balance somewhere in her junk-food-fed frame, she hadn...
Drinking was easier. Asked what and where she drank, Baiul says everything and everywhere. Vodka and cranberry was her favorite. Well, she is told, it's certainly not uncommon for a teenager, any teenager, to go for a good time...
...really heavy drinking began five months before the crackup, she says. On Jan. 12, 1997, with a Russian-trained skater named Ari Zakarian in the passenger seat and her blood-alcohol level at 0.168 in a state with a 0.10 limit, Baiul swerved off the road and slammed into the trees. "I got 14 stitches and couldn't walk the next day. I said, 'Oh, my God, I'm still alive...