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Sunday, September 08, 2002
The summer season continues to provide some surprising news for skating fans. Stars on Ice continues to finalize its cast for their new season, adding three new pairs teams, Sale & Pelletier, Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze and Ina & Zimmerman. Todd Eldredge and Aleksei Yagudin will headline the singles skaters, providing some technical firepower. Yagudin claims he still wants to compete in the eligible events this coming season, but one wonders how he'll be able to pull off both. Eldredge has asked for a sanction from USFSA so he still maintains his Olympic eligibility. Ina & Zimmerman would like to maintain their eligibility, but admit that it's up to the federation. Sale & Pelletier, exhausted from the Olympics and judging madness, have retired from eligible competition. Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze are taking a year off from competitions; again one wonders if they'll return in the current skating climate. Sasha Cohen has surprised everyone in skating by leaving John Nicks to work with Tatiana Tarasova in Connecticut. Tarasova is known as an ice dance genius, but she has also coached Ilia Kulik and Aleksei Yagudin to Olympic gold medals. Time will tell if Tarasova will be able to tame skating's little firecracker. Maybe getting Sasha a *real* choreographer will improve her overall skating. Also now working with Tarasova is Naomi Lang & Peter Tcherneyschev who have left Sasha Zhulin. Tragically U.S. skating also lost a promising star recently. William Sears had been novice pairs champion with Katie Boxwell in 2002 when he passed away suddenly. No cause of death has been determined. He was 20 years old. And for those who read my earlier post on the tennis stars: let's hear it for the old guys! |
