I remember when she was National Champ they had her speaking at high schools
about "just saying no." My how time flies.


--- In SkateFans@yahoogroups.com, Sandra Loosemore <pondscum@...> wrote:
>
> Suzanne Lainson <slainson@...> writes:
>
> > I don't think anyone figured Bobek would end up being more notorious
> > than Harding, but if she ends up in prison for leading a meth ring,
> > then I think she has trumped Harding.
> >
> > And a few folks, way back when, wondered why some of us thought so
> > highly of Kwan even though she didn't win Olympic gold.
>
> Heh. It seems to me that even just staying out of trouble with the
> police is a pretty low bar to set on the decency scale. :-P
>
> From the stories I used to hear about Bobek during her competitive
> days, I used to think that she was burning through life at such a
> reckless pace that she wasn't even going to live long enough to see
> 30; if the drugs and drinking didn't get her, it was going to be AIDS
> or something else. Well, since she's made it to 31, she proved me
> wrong about that.... but geez, her life must be a wreck for her to
> have gotten into this mess. :-(
>
> Anyway.... Christopher Bowman told Christine Brennan in 1995 that
> he'd been arrested 27 times already by that point and goodness knows
> how many more times he got himself into trouble before he died. Yet,
> we never really heard anything about his career as a criminal in the
> press except when he talked about it himself. Why has Bobek's arrest
> gotten so much more publicity? When Rudy Galindo, Oksana Baiul, and
> Alexei Yagudin were each picked up on DUI charges, we heard about
> that, but they were all at or near the peak of their fame when that
> happened, and Bobek is at least a dozen years removed. We did hear
> about Wolfgang Schwarz but that's really the only case of
> long-ago-famous skater making the news because of criminal charges
> that I can recall. I'm willing to bet there are others out there we
> just haven't heard about.
>
> -Sandra the cynic
>