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Perfection a myth – in figure skating and life


ON THIN ICE: Nicole Bobek, here performing her routine during the women’s free-skating long program at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, is charged in New Jersey with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
Nicole Bobek’s face was splashed across newspapers and TV screens from London to Los Angeles, the figure skater’s latest doings making her tabloid fodder once again.

It hardly mattered the former U.S. champion hadn’t competed in a decade, or that she was a relative bit player in the Michelle Kwan era. Fifteen years after Tonya Harding and the Whack Heard ’Round the World, her arrest last week was a reminder that ice princesses can find trouble just as easily as any other athlete.

“Figure skating, especially for women, is so much about femininity,” said Karen Sternheimer...
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