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What does a princess do after happily-ever-after? Oksana Baiul of Ukraine was Cinderella. The poor little orphan who slept at a run-down rink, practicing on uneven ice to qualify for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. There she defeated the sport's two dueling ice queens and was suddenly royalty herself. Baiul, at 16, was embraced by a worldwide audience hungry for miracles and was beloved by Americans who were willing to pay handsomely to see success stories. Baiul went to America to become perhaps the most highly paid newcomer in professional figure skating (with...
...leap into adulthood has become increasingly troubled. Baiul was arrested in Connecticut last week for driving under the influence of alcohol and reckless driving after she swerved off the road and hit some small trees. She was admitted to a local hospital, where doctors put 12 stitches in her scalp and treated her for a concussion. Her blood-alcohol level was 0.168%, well above the state's limit of 0.10%. JoJo Starbuck, a two-time world bronze medalist in pairs skating who has choreographed Baiul a number of times, said, "Watching her recently, I've been concerned that her lack...
When she first arrived in the U.S., Baiul stuck close to her coach and surrogate mother Galina Zmievskaya and to Ukrainian Olympic champion Viktor Petrenko, who has always acted as a kind of older brother to Baiul. But they have been drifting apart. "She had kind of stepped away from the real hard work on the ice," Petrenko told TIME. "She's just enjoying her life." That included adding a new layer of friends, like Ari Zakarian, 30, the Russian-trained skater who was a passenger in her car the night of the accident. In the days after the crash...
BLOOMFIELD, Conn: Hailed in 1993 as an ethereal "ice princess" by TIME's Susanna Schrobsdorff, Oksana Baiul is attempting to set her crown straight after skidding her green Mercedes off the highway and into some Connecticut shrubbery Sunday morning. An unknown Ukrainian orphan who first emerged as an international sports celebrity after cinching an Olympic gold in 1994 at the age of 16, Oksana had slipped to the sidelines of world competition, plagued by back and knee injuries, weight gain and the distractions of stardom. On Tuesday, police charged Baiul, 19, who now lives in Connecticut, with drinking and reckless...
Sadly, one of the best winter spectator sports, kitschy-ice-skating-outfit-watching, has been in decline ever since the Soviet Union went capitalist and discovered good taste. The final straw: OKSANA BAIUL, whose feathery, tear-stained confection did Ukraine so proud in the 1994 Olympics (above), has been given a makeover in December's Seventeen (left). Well, it had to happen. In the year she has lived in the U.S., Baiul has cottoned on to a lot of what it means to be an American teenager. When not performing, she likes to shop, she says, especially for clothes...