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...steamy (Seoul in 1988, Barcelona in 1992) and developed a dual role as reporter and logistics organizer. Says deputy chief of correspondents Paul Witteman: "Susanna has been our decathlete, mastering everything from telecommunications in Spain to computers in France to transportation in Seoul. She has reported from Odessa, Ukraine, about figure skater Oksana Baiul and from Copenhagen about the moves and moods of Torvill and Dean. I first saw her in Calgary being hugged by stuffed bears, which were that year's Olympics mascots. Now we all feel the same way about...
Still, Oksana spins between expensive hotel suites during U.S. tours and the dingy apartment block where she lives in Odessa. Million-dollar endorsements are not hard to foresee. American friends like skater Jill Trenary think that Oksana will handle it all when the time comes...
...strange fog has shrouded the rink at the Odessa Sports Palace, making the skaters look as if they are gliding on air. The decrepit building's ancient cooling system is losing the battle with September sunshine. When the air finally clears, only one skater still looks as if she is floating. She is Oksana Baiul, 16, the world figure-skating champion and the favorite to win the gold in the Olympics next month. It is astonishing that she can train at all on the soft, uneven ice, but a bad surface has been just one of the problems...
Friends help make her costumes, and Petrenko chips in on skates. Even Zmievskaya gets to the rink early, shovel in hand, to clean the ice. So why do they stay here rather than seek out prestigious shelter in the West? Zmievskaya explains, "We want to be in Odessa. We would never have the money to pay for everything in America. Here our choreographers are free, the best and poorest in the world...
Maybe answering the question would simply satisfy some kind of background check. Russians always ask me why I'm called Natasha. I used to answer that my mother just liked the name, but that was never sufficient. Now I respond immediately that my ancestors used to play violin in Odessa (one ancestor, name unknown, a long time ago); they nod, satisfied...