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...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 in Connecticut. Baiul, now 20, tells TIME she is an alcoholic...
...helped make skating so popular that $1 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...
...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...
...life. She's recognized she has a problem, and is in the process of resolving it." She is not in rehab now, he said, but she's seeing a psychologist. A small group of coaches, skaters and friends has adopted her, Carlisle says, and is overseeing the education of Oksana. "She has demons. But she's a wonderful person, and she's trying to work through...
...event was hosted by Paul S. Wylie '90 and featured many well-known skaters such as Olympic gold medalist Oksana Baiul...