Rochette

JOANNIE ROCHETTE, Canadian figure skater who won the bronze in the women's competition Thursday, on skating her long program just four days after the sudden death of her mother; Rochette became the first Canadian since 1988 to stand on the podium

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Rochette is 5th in the world, and Canadian to boot, so she becomes an automatic media hotspot, especially after she cries after her short program.

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Rochette is 5th in the world, and Canadian to boot, so she becomes an automatic media hotspot, especially after she cries after her short program.

YOUR MOTHER PASSED AWAY. FUNERAL TOMORROW. DEEP SYMPATHY. intertribal 2010

Among those who reached out to Rochette is Canadian singer Celine Dion, who told the skater about performing the same day her father died.

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Like many of the other 2010 Winter Olympic headliners USA TODAY caught up with a month after the closing of the Vancouver Games, Rochette is trying to stay centered with her sport amid a swirl of media demands and well-wishers.

Winter stars will get their groove on TV, tour, dance floor 2010

So instead of being courageous, I think it's more likely Joannie Rochette is just trying to deal.

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Leigonyer, who commanded here, had with him four good regiments; and occupied several strong positions on the right bank of the river Layon, and also a post called Rochette on the left bank.

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Jeffrey Buttle, the former champion figure skater and a friend of Rochette's, was once quoted in La Presse calling Rochette's mom "the most important person in her life."

Winnipeg Sun 2010

Jeffrey Buttle, the former champion figure skater and a friend of Rochette's, was once quoted in La Presse calling Rochette's mom "the most important person in her life."

Ottawa Sun 2010

And while I can't control the outpouring of rubbernecky-stranger-pathos toward Rochette - although I will say it creeps me out - I do object to the value judgment placed on the way she deals with grief.

YOUR MOTHER PASSED AWAY. FUNERAL TOMORROW. DEEP SYMPATHY. intertribal 2010