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- Before she starts a
- figure skating performance,
- Oksana Baiul [AHK-zan-ah
- bye-OOL] says she listens
- to the blades of her ice
- skates. She doesnΓÇÖt begin her program until
- she gets the ΓÇ£OK" from them. So far, Oksana
- and her skates have made a winning
- combination. Entering the scene in 1993,
- Oksana became the youngest female world
- figure skating champion since Sonja Henie
- (in 1927), and added an Olympic gold medal
- to her collection in 1994.
-
- OksanaΓÇÖs life now is filled with excitement,
- but it hasnΓÇÖt always been that way. Her
- father abandoned her and her mother
- when Oksana was a baby. In 1991,
- her mother died of cancer. Oksana
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