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- Mar 4, 2004
I saw this and had to get it-I am a sucker for any skating book I can find. It is about the pairs at the 2002 Olympics-Russian, Canadian and Chinese. It is startlingly personal and really good reading. I am not a skater myself-just a general fan-so I don't know how it rates when read by someone in the sport--but I enjoyed it.
It certainly gives an arresting and melancholic portrait of Elena B. and gives a lot more detail about the Chinese pairs' history than I have ever seen before. The author appears to have done a lot of interviews-with parents, the skaters and others. The retelling of the actual Olympics-strangely enough, is not the element that stays with you . I thought the individual skater portraits, backgrounds, and follow-ups were far more compelling than the the author's take on the controversy to me. (that part seemed a little watered down and cautious)
Has anyone else picked this up?
BTW-I have emerged from long lurking! My screen name stems from the fact that the 76 Olympics are the first that I watched and really enjoyed. (yep-I am 40!)
It certainly gives an arresting and melancholic portrait of Elena B. and gives a lot more detail about the Chinese pairs' history than I have ever seen before. The author appears to have done a lot of interviews-with parents, the skaters and others. The retelling of the actual Olympics-strangely enough, is not the element that stays with you . I thought the individual skater portraits, backgrounds, and follow-ups were far more compelling than the the author's take on the controversy to me. (that part seemed a little watered down and cautious)
Has anyone else picked this up?
BTW-I have emerged from long lurking! My screen name stems from the fact that the 76 Olympics are the first that I watched and really enjoyed. (yep-I am 40!)