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That phase of an already crowded life is definitively over. Crowds love Baiul, and she loves them. Anyone with something to sell will be just as smitten. In the past, Zmievskaya has turned aside suggestions that her extended family move to the comforts of the West because they lacked the money for training and living expenses. Now they will probably spend at least part of the year outside Ukraine...
...knows how Baiul will handle her new celebrity? She dotes on a stuffed rabbit given to her by another idol, skater Jill Trenary. She is a fountain of emotion, weeping at good news or bad. Her American agent, Michael Rosenberg, is exultant at the gold. Asked about his strategy for his young client, he says, "I see her as the next Judy Garland." For the coming phase, Baiul will need all the determination that brought her so far so fast, because that statement is enough to make you weep...
Most Popular Composer in the Rink: Not Tchaikovsky, for all the feathers on Oksana Baiul's swan suit. Two of the top four dance couples tripped the ice fantastic to the music of Italian film composer Nino Rota, and Frenchman Philippe Candeloro, who won a bronze, skated to Rota's score for The Godfather...
...That I'm Bitter, But ... : Believing the medal ceremony was delayed as Oksana Baiul touched up her makeup, Nancy Kerrigan said: "Oh, come on. So she's going to get out here and cry again. What's the difference?" The delay was caused by a search for a copy of Ukraine's anthem...
Ukrainian teenager Oksana Baiul left Lillehammer with a gold medal in women's figure skating, after surviving a collision during practice that left her with a bruised spine and three stitches in her shin. Nancy Kerrigan, clubbing victim, went home with a silver ... and doubtless a fistful of new endorsement offers. Her bitter rival, Tonya Harding, flubbed the technical portion of the competition, aborted her first pass at the long performance, complaining of a badly tied lace, and finished eighth. She returns to face legal problems...