In tears minutes after her last routine, she refused to acknowledge and shake the hands of silver medalist Carolina Pascual.
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She married Dmitry Svatkovsky, one of the athletes on the CIS silver medal-winning 1992 pentathlon team and the 2000 individual Olympic gold medalist in modern pentathlon.
At the 1991 World Championships she placed 3rd in All-around behind Ukrainaians Oxana Skaldina and Olexandra Tymoshenko.