Skating Expert Alina Sivorinovsky Adams Weighs In On Latest Olympic Drama
Ice Skating Researcher and Author says Run, Emily, Run!
(PRWEB) February 14, 2006 -- New York, NY…Admitting that she couldn’t have scripted a better scenario, skating expert/mystery writer Alina Sivorinovsky Adams muses, “So Kwan is out of the Olympics, and Emily Hughes is in Long Island... sitting in the middle of the biggest snowstorm of the season. No planes are taking off. The roads are covered. Poor Emily. The drama! The doubt! The tension!”
Sivorinovsky Adams, a contributing editor to “International Figure Skating Magazine,” is one of the few journalists who has inside knowledge of the Hughes family. In 2002, months before an American teen came out of nowhere to win the Olympic Gold medal, Sivorinovsky Adams published the biography SARAH HUGHES: SKATING TO THE STARS. Being the only volume available on the young skater, the book became a best-seller and catapulted Sivorinovsky Adams into the spotlight as a sought-after new voice in the discussion of a much beloved sport. Over the last four years, Sivorinovsky Adams has gotten to know the Hughes family, and offers these thoughts:
“This is the best thing that could happen to Emily. If she makes it to Turin and skates great - what a story! If she makes it to Turin and doesn't skate great -- poor kid, look at everything she's had to go through. The emotional roller-coaster! The crazy travel! Jet lag! First major, Senior international!
This will put even more pressure on Sasha Cohen. The press will want to know how she feels about this latest development, and Sasha is never happy having the spotlight turn away from her onto someone else. Emily will become the story of the Games, so Sasha will try to win attention back by going out there and trying something spectacular. This is not a strategy that tends to work for her. This is what the Olympics are all about! Who cares about the skating? It's the human drama.”
For more of Sivorinovsky Adams’ opinion on the upcoming Hughes/Cohen skate-off, attitudes and Emily’s chances of following in her sister’s footsteps, please visit her blog: www.figureskatingmystery.com. Please contact Gayle Khait or Debra Burley for interview opportunities with this dynamic and vivacious young writer.
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