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...antics, her on-the-ice success is at least as noteworthy. The 2001 world all-around champion, she has dominated the World Cup circuit this season, winning all but one of her middle- and long-distance races and establishing herself as the hot favorite for Olympic gold...
...daughter of two world-class speed skaters, Friesinger got an early taste of glory when she won the 1996 World Junior Championship. Since then, her skating has been inconsisent. Bursts of brilliance - a 3000-m bronze at Nagano, a 1500-m gold at the '98 Worlds, the 2000 European all-around title - were matched by disappointment, such as back problems that sidelined her for much of 1999 and a crash at the 2001 European championships in which she hurt her neck and her knee...
They can take their fighting words to Salt Lake City, where Friesinger reckons that Pechstein will be one of her toughest opponents, especially at the longer distances. Another obstacle will be the intense pressure from others to win. "Everybody is expecting the gold," she says. "It's crazy." Or maybe they've just figured out that gold is her color...
...frozen, you can count on Russian teams winning medals in pairs and ice dancing. For the past half a century, in fact, at least one Russian pair has stood on the Olympic podium, and with the exception of one Games, when British dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won gold, Russian ice dancers have occupied the top spot in that event. Russian men have also dominated, bringing home gold in the past three Olympics, but oddly enough, no Russian has yet won Olympic gold in ladies' figure skating...
...spell may end in Salt Lake City, if either Irina Slutskaya, 22, or Maria Butyrskaya, 29, performs to her potential. Their skating at last month's European champion-ships was shaky, but Slutskaya has defeated U.S. champion Michelle Kwan each time they have competed this season, while Butyrskaya grabbed gold from Kwan at the 1999 Worlds...