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figure skating stories: 7 news summaries

 Ex-Olympic Skater 
 Bobek Busted 
 in Meth Ring 

1998 Olympian pleads not guilty

Jul 7, 09 11:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former US Olympic figure skater Nicole Bobek has a new career, allegedly: drug dealer. Bobek, 31, pleaded not guilty yesterday to a charge of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, the AP reports. A New Jersey prosecutor tells Fox affiliate WNYW-TV that the 1995 US champion “was actively involved in the... More »

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crime • drug dealing • methamphetamine • figure skating • Nicole Bobek

TELL-ALL

 Confessions of a Skater 
 With an Eating Disorder 

SEE NOTE

Jul 6, 09 9:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - At the height of her figure skating career, former Four Continents Champion Jennifer Kirk had a secret. “Unfortunately, my secret wasn’t very unique,” she writes for True/Slant. “I had an eating disorder.” And so did many of her friends. “The skating world fostered the... More »

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bulimia • anorexia • eating disorder • figure skating • women's issues • Jennifer Kirk

(Newser) - Figure-skating champions Michelle Kwan and Sarah Hughes both had to step outside the rink to land their latest accomplishment—graduating from college. Five-time world champ Kwan, 28, received a Bachelor's degree in international studies with a political science minor from the University of Denver. Hughes, meanwhile, completed a degree in... More »

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Yale University • graduation • figure skating • college graduates • Michelle Kwan • Sarah Hughes

Figure Skating Talks Up Its
Tough Side

Canadian campaign aims to ice sport's
sissy stereotype

Feb 4, 09 8:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Canada's figure skating authorities have launched a controversial campaign to convince people the sport is as manly as any other, the Globe & Mail reports. Skate Canada, concerned about dwindling interest in the sport, is trying to scrap figure skating's sissy stereotype and play up "the danger, speed, risk,... More »

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Canada • skating • figure skating

Harding
Skates Back
Into Spotlight

Disgraced Olympian not party to Kerrigan mess, says tell-all book

May 23, 08 5:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - What read like a closed book in 1994 is falling open in a Tonya Harding tell-all, reports Newsweek in an interview with the fallen figure skater. The Tonya Tapes argues that Harding wasn't just uninvolved in Nancy Kerrigan's knee-whacking—she planned to rat out her ex-husband to the... More »

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crime • Olympic Games • book • Nancy Kerrigan • Tonya Harding • figure skating • innocent

'Bowman the Showman' Found Dead

Figure skating champ's body in LA motel, overdose suspected

Jan 11, 08 2:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Former US figure skating champion Christopher Bowman was found dead yesterday in a Los Angeles motel room, AP reports. Authorities suspect a drug overdose. Bowman, 40, won US figure skating titles in 1988 and 1992 and wowed the crowds at the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics. His flamboyant personality and... More »

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skating • overdose • Olympic Games • figure skating

Kerrigan Plotter Dies at Age 40

Ex-bodyguard changed name, 'died a long time ago,' brother says

Dec 16, 07 3:31 PM CST
(Newser) - A plotter in the 1994 attack on skater Nancy Kerrigan died this week of natural causes at age 40, the AP reports. Brian Sean Griffith, ex-bodyguard to figure-skating Olympic hopeful Tonya Harding, confessed to helping organize the attack on Kerrigan days after it happened. Griffith served 14 months and... More »

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skating • obituary • attack • assault • Olympic Games • Nancy Kerrigan • Tonya Harding • figure skating • scandal

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