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...blow that was apparently designed to shatter Kerrigan's hopes and improve Harding's prospects promises to have the opposite effect both on the ice and off. If Harding skates in Lillehammer, she will face a chilly reception from a panel of judges reluctant to bestow gold on a skater who has cast so dark a shadow over the sport. "Subconsciously they're probably going to mark her down," says Seppo Iso-Ahola, a University of Maryland sports psychologist...
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...
...Skater Oksana Baiul, Ukraine's pride...
...Figure skater's bodyguard is implicated in attack on Kerrigan...