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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...
...million annual incomes for name skaters are now routine. Rosenberg represents 41 skaters and, with exquisite timing, dumped Harding as a client just days before the clubbing because her husband was making him nuts. "You've got Nancy with her stock suffering, Oksana never winning another competition...Katia [Gordeeva's nickname] is the only one now of the four...
...interview was taped two weeks ago in Colorado--along with some skating, for which Baiul, Gordeeva and Katerina Witt, according to a published report, refused to be in the same building as Harding; Tonya was banished to an outdoor rink. This lovely episode of Soap Stars on Ice will air Feb. 5, just before opening ceremonies at the Winter Games in Nagano, Japan...
...Katia Gordeeva emerges from the elevator lobby in a hotel at Baltimore's Inner Harbor and comes toward you as if she's walking a plank. Another interview. Wonderful. More questions about the dark passage from Olympic glory to the depths of sorrow. Swell...
...blame her? Only a little more than two years ago, she lost the only man she ever loved. Gordeeva had grown up in his arms, and he had died in hers, and though she needs to move beyond that now, the questions always drag her back. Gordeeva, 26, folds her body in half to sit down and is so tiny the chair looks like a prop. She sits impatiently, tragically beautiful, forever fractured. And then she says, "I'm not so strong inside as I look outside...