Janeite on a sled
The unholy spectacle of a Russian coach berating a fifteen-year-old figure skater after an epic public fail shadowed by a doping scandal cast a pall over the recently-concluded Winter Olympics in Beijing. Or at least it did for me, since I watch the Winter Olympics solely for the heart-stopping beauty of figure skating. Perhaps I would have cheered up if only I had known more about a different Russian athlete: twenty-six-year-old Yulia Kanakina, a competitor in skeleton, that