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Four female skaters Lutzed out of Lillehammer in 1994 as international household names, and 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...
Gordeeva was but 11, a slip of a girl, when she and fellow Muscovite Sergei Grinkov first skated together. They would swoon their way to four world championships and take Olympic gold in 1988 and again...
...wasn't a good time at all, she says. "It was horrible." She was depressed, confused and frightened. Barely out of puberty, "I had a gold medal. Millions. Too much too soon." She didn't have to work another day in her life, and that was part of the problem. If she didn't skate, which suddenly was the most awkward thing in the world, "then what am I supposed...
...angst and tension--as well as grit and struggle and nobility of spirit--was obliged to turn to sports. And turn we did, with our hearts and souls. In the town of Green Bay, it is now not only possible but unremarkable to be buried in a green-and-gold casket, if not in an entire Packers uniform. Philadelphia has had to build a courtroom into Vets Stadium to deal with fans who, in their enthusiasm, have taken to firing flare guns into the field...
...describes it, if you do make the cut, giving sperm is the gold mine that the myth suggests: At $40 per ejaculate, he tells me, it's not too difficult to make $500 a month. That's roughly $200 per hour by his calculation, and enough to keep him from resuming the dorm crew job he held last year or calling home to ask for money...