Saturday, December 22, 2012

Whatever happened to Elena Berezhnaya?


The Oksana Baiul thing made me wonder whatever happened to Elena Berezhnaya, the really cute pairs skater that got a skate blade in the head and lost her ability to talk for awhile, recovered from that, got a new partner, moved to the top of the rankings, then unfortunately got caught up in the 2002 Olympic figure skating judging scandal and ended up sharing the gold medal with Pelletier/Sale, an event which resulted in the much  more fair system that's in place today (and the skaters are doing a decent job artistically, as well).

The big news is that after the Olympics, she got romantically hitched to British skater Steven Cousins, had two children with him, and at some point also got married to him (not sure in what order). She did some exhibitions post-Olympics but is now retired from skating.  She was on a Canadian  skating reality show called "Battle of the Blades".

I found a couple of semi-sexy pictures of her too.  Like I said, she was (and still is) really cute.  She matured from the pixie cut look she had in the Olympics.




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