Word: kazakova
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sometimes from surprising faces, sometimes from the old familiar ones we had almost forgotten amid talk of an Olympic youth movement. Often, in fact, looking up at the podium, one could imagine oneself in some Eastern version of Sleepy Hollow. There was Artur Dmitriev, lifting his new partner Oksana Kazakova to a gold, with a long program of soulful if hardly flawless majesty, and collecting the medal he had won six years before. There was Georg Hackl, the businesslike German soldier, shooting away with the gold in the men's luge, as he had done in Lillehammer and in Albertville...
Howard wasn't the only defector last week. While the Soviets gained a spy, the U.S. took in a husband-and-wife high-wire duo from the prestigious Moscow Circus. Bertalina Kazakova and Nikolai Nikolsky walked into the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires last week and are now in Miami, where they may soon be hearing from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus...
| 1 |