HISTORIC GOLD IN ICE DANCING BRINGS COOL RESPONSE AT RINK.(Sports)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: February 17, 1998 | Copyright information

No sooner had blue-nailed, white-haired Pasha Grishuk dried the tears of joy streaming down her mascara-smudged face, when the sniping began.

``I think we had a better program overall,'' ice dancing silver medalist Anjelika Krylova said.

``I think there was some politics involved,'' added her partner, Oleg Ovsyannikov.

``For me, they don't bring the sport up,'' sniffed Natalia Dubova, who coaches Canada's Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz, the fourth-place finishers behind Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat of France.

``They'' are Russians Pasha Grishuk and ...

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