Word: baiul
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Dates: during 1994-1994
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After all, all, all that, however, the gold medal in women's figure skating went to neither Nancy Kerrigan nor Tonya Harding but to Ukraine's Oksana Baiul. The outcome was a shock -- but not entirely a surprise. Any member of last Wednesday's TV sport audience knew that Harding was scarcely in physical shape to contend for a medal and that Kerrigan was stronger and more poised than she has ever been. But the enchantress was Baiul, 16, who presented herself elaborately costumed as the Black Swan in Tchaikovsky's ballet. Feathers...
...naive but inspired -- sublimely expressive of the changeling that Baiul is. Her Friday long program, which secured the prize, was shakier, but she moved with rare, sinuous rhythms on the ice. And, irony of ironies, she was recovering from her own injuries suffered the day before. Her physical pain was evident, framing her performance with agony more immediate than the video memories of Kerrigan weeping in Detroit seven weeks ago. The bizarre accident in which the Ukrainian collided with a German competitor during practice had created not only a new victim but prepared the way for a new heroine. Baiul...
...Barcelona in 1992) and developed a dual role as reporter and logistics organizer. Says deputy chief of correspondents Paul Witteman: "Susanna has been our decathlete, mastering everything from telecommunications in Spain to computers in France to transportation in Seoul. She has reported from Odessa, Ukraine, about figure skater Oksana Baiul and from Copenhagen about the moves and moods of Torvill and Dean. I first saw her in Calgary being hugged by stuffed bears, which were that year's Olympics mascots. Now we all feel the same way about...
...will walk away with the coveted gold medal? Oksana Baiul of the Ukraine? Surya of France? Or some other skater of similar ability? We must also acknowledge the possibility that the Clockemas County investigators might dig up enough evidence to indict Harding before she skates. The law could preclude her performance before she skates...
Skater Oksana Baiul, Ukraine's pride...