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Article: Cohen is skating's `it' girl.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- January 14, 2003
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Byline: Philip Hersh
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. _ Alexandra Pauline Cohen, known simply as Sasha, is the closest thing to a diva figure skating has seen since Katarina Witt left the scene nearly a decade ago.
Cohen knows it too.
And that's a good thing in a sport where charisma counts.
So is going by a sonorous and exotic single name, the Russian diminutive of Alexandra, that seems especially appropriate given her diminutive physical proportions. She skates a lot bigger, radiating a magnetism that makes it impossible to take one's eyes off her.
Part headstrong enfant terrible, part graceful sylph, all eye-catching as she twists her ...