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  1.                                  didnΓÇÖt have any relatives. 
  2.                                  Her coach and a friend of
  3.                                  her motherΓÇÖs were the only
  4.                                  people she had left. Then, 
  5.                                  a year later when Oksana 
  6. was 14, her coach took a job in Canada and 
  7. moved away. 
  8.  
  9. But soon OksanaΓÇÖs luck started to change.
  10. In 1992, another coach, Galina Zmievskaya 
  11. [zim-YEV-sky-ya] invited Oksana to live with
  12. her and also be coached by her. Oksana 
  13. moved from her hometown of 
  14. Dnepropetrovsk [NEP-roe-puh-TROFSK], 
  15. Ukraine, to Odessa, Ukraine. 
  16.  
  17. Coach Zmievskaya also worked with 
  18. Viktor Petrenko, the 1992 Olympic 
  19. menΓÇÖs figure-skating champion. 
  20.  
  21.