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...know you’re reading this, Sarah Hughes. Listen. There’s no future in figure skating, not when Tonya Harding is beating up Paula Jones on Celebrity Boxing and Oksana Baiul is trying to resurrect her career after DUI charges. When Brian Boitano dies, more people will remember him for his hilarious “cameo” in the South Park movie than for anything he did on the ice. And you, Sarah Hughes, are the only reason why figure skating, a tarnished sport, could emerge from the 2002 Olympics with its head held high. There?...
...largely a matter of style. Evaluating the finer points of a skater's presentation, such as poise and emotive display, is subjective territory. But it could mean the difference between gold and silver, as Nancy Kerrigan learned in 1994, when judges ranked her flawless performance at Lillehammer behind Oksana Baiul's slightly flawed but more exuberant and stylish...
...says. Hampered by a back injury last year, Cohen was erratic in the season's first events but has an ability to transfix an audience with innovative moves that highlight her flexibility. Even without the quad, she may just possess that indescribable elan that sets Olympic champions apart. Oksana Baiul, the 1994 gold medalist, had it, defeating Kerrigan with her exuberant performance; Lipinski had it in Nagano...
...with catered banquets and corporate sponsorships and endorsements. (Such progress wasn’t proof against the experience of Gisela Mohring ’00. An EWC public-relations chair who went on to work in public relations for Dana Farber, Mohring is saddled with the memory of chasing Oksana Baiul’s escaped and frantically urinating chihuahua through the locker rooms of the Bright Hockey Center...
...been thinking about Danylo Struk. It would have been Danylo's 60th birthday earlier this month. But one night last August in Munich, he complained to his wife, Oksana, that he felt wrong - something in the chest. They got to a hospital. He died there of a massive heart attack. His stepson Andrij called me later. I talked to Oksana when she got to Paris. His death seemed somehow more wanton, more unjust, than most...