Word: zakarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really heavy drinking began five months before the crackup, she says. On Jan. 12, 1997, with a Russian-trained skater named Ari Zakarian in the passenger seat and her blood-alcohol level at 0.168 in a state with a 0.10 limit, Baiul swerved off the road and slammed into the trees. "I got 14 stitches and couldn't walk the next day. I said, 'Oh, my God, I'm still alive...
...always acted as a kind of older brother to Baiul. But they have been drifting apart. "She had kind of stepped away from the real hard work on the ice," Petrenko told TIME. "She's just enjoying her life." That included adding a new layer of friends, like Ari Zakarian, 30, the Russian-trained skater who was a passenger in her car the night of the accident. In the days after the crash, he slipped away to Switzerland. Reached by TIME, he said, "The accident, in my opinion, was not because she was drunk, but because she got very emotional...
...easily exceeded the state limit, and who is two years short of the legal drinking age of 21, was released on her own recognizance and is now recovering at home in Simsbury, Conn. from a concussion and scalp cut. Also injured in the crash was fellow Ukrainian skater Ararat Zakarian, 30, who suffered a broken finger. The two were returning to Baiul's home after watching an ice pageant Saturday evening in Hartford. In a statement released Tuesday, the skater asked friends and fans for their understanding and apologized "for the mistake I made and the circumstances surrounding the accident...