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...keep its Olympic luster. After the Soviet Union fell, sports funding dried up. With no income to support them, some athletes found refuge in the crime world. Others, who might normally have passed on their knowledge to the next generation, simply left the country, with top coaches Tatiana Tarasova and Tamara Moskvina both settling in America. Russia went from 23 medals at the 1994 Lillehammer Games to 13 at Salt Lake City in 2002. After Russia's uninspired showing at the last Winter Games, President Vladimir Putin lamented the country's parlous medical state?half of all Russian children...
...system relies on private money to bankroll athletes once taken care of by the state. Big Russian businesses like Lukoil and Sberbank have coughed up at least $300,000 each as sport sponsors. Eminent coaches like Tarasova and Moskvina returned from overseas to a Russia where some parents were now willing to pay lavishly for private lessons. Even the Russian Olympic Committee stepped in, offering a $50,000 reward to gold medallists. In figure skating, at least, this commercially driven program is churning out champions. Three nights after the Russian pair claimed gold, Siberian native Evgeny Plushenko, whose childhood rink...
...frustrated that I wasn't getting the level of training that I needed." She decided she was missing the Olympic-caliber coaching and skating facilities of the East Coast, so she and her family moved to considerably chillier Connecticut, where she joined the powerhouse skating team of Tatiana Tarasova, who has coached eight Olympic champions. There Cohen was forced to adopt a strict regimen of endurance and strength training to build up her core for whipping off jumps. The result: she had her best season, winning three international competitions. The 56-year-old Tarasova's health began to decline, however...
Just before the 2004 national championships, Cohen made another abrupt change, leaving Tarasova, who moved back to Russia, for Robin Wagner, who had coached Sarah Hughes to Olympic gold. Wagner supplemented Tarasova's physical training with the emotional support that Cohen was missing. But by the end of that season, the old demons had re-emerged. Cohen finished second to Kwan for the third time at the nationals and was forced to miss several competitions because of a recurring back injury. When she returned to the ice, her confidence was shot. "At that point," she said, "I needed to take...
...course of his six-year competitive career, Kulik, who moved to Marlborough, Mass., from Moscow in 1996, has not always performed so brilliantly. In recent months, though, he has moved up the rankings, largely thanks to his work with Russian ice-dancing coach Tatiana Tarasova, who two years ago came out of retirement to oversee Kulik's career. Last summer she put him on a regimen of cycling, running and weight lifting to bolster his conditioning. In December, Kulik, who has never won a world championship, defeated Stojko and Eldredge in Munich at the Champions Series final...