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| | United States Olympic Committee - Ice optional for Alexei Yagudin |
 | | Yagudin also skates in five group numbers, including a knock-down, drag-out boxing/martial-arts piece performed by all seven male members of the cast: Yagudin, Todd Eldredge, Steven Cousins, John Zimmerman (partner to Kyoko Ina), David Pelletier (partner to Jamie Sale), Hongbo Zhao (partner to Xue Shen), and Anton Sikharulidze (partner to Elena Berezhnaya). |
 | | Yagudin's quest for perfection, which led him to become the first man to earn the triple crown of skating (the European, Grand Prix and World titles), is not ego-driven. |
 | | Sobered and matured by a hard-scrabble youth, Yagudin is not deafened by applause nor blinded by acclaim. |
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