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...production drew almost 4,000 to two performances on Friday and Saturday nights, raising between $35,000 and $40,000. The production has yielded a total of over $2.2 million in donations since 1970. The event featured Russian husband- wife duo and Olympic gold medalists Ilia Kulik and Ekaterina Gordeeva. The crowd of Harvard students, alumni, and Jimmy Fund cancer patients cheered loudly for each performer. Manuel Rincon-Cruz ’09 said he enjoyed every moment as he saw the Evening of Champions for the first time. “The whole show was awesome...
...their guests, and about 17 of the skaters will live in the Houses. EWC tries to accommodate the skaters as much as possible, according to Kukunova. Certain skaters requested hotels because of special needs. For example, Ilia Kulik, a 1998 Olympic champion, and two-time Olympic gold medalist Ekaterina Gordeeva wanted hotel rooms because they are coming with their children. “If we can give it to them, we give it to them,” said Kukunova. “If not, we ask if they would mind staying with a master or in a guest suite...
...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...
Oksana did the Manhattan club scene. She bought the Mercedes. She snapped up a $450,000 house in Connecticut. "She had no parents to tell her to stop," says Gordeeva, a caring friend and, at the time, a neighbor. "When you're preparing for the Olympics, it is so completely consuming that you really don't have much else of a life," says Starbuck. "Consequently, you don't have a lot of wisdom or other life experiences. Before the Olympics you have someone holding your hand. Afterward, you're young and naive and vulnerable, and you don't always have...
...remember her telling me, 'Katia, I hate it, I hate it. I never want to skate again,'" says Gordeeva...