What was a downfall for them were the things she did off the ice. Sending her aunt to a press conference to ridicule Boune and Kraatz, her unreasonable dislike of Oksana Baiul (sorry if I spelt that wrong) and the affair. She was a nutcase.
She was indeed a nutcase. But I don't understand why she got so much negative press about the affair while both Zhulin and Navka remained unscathed.