country birth_place height birth_date article_title name retired
bulgaria sofia , bulgaria 1.67 27 may 1977 tsvetelina abrasheva
 tsvetelina abrasheva 1997
tsvetelina abrasheva

tsvetelina abrasheva -lrb- ; born 27 may 1977 -rrb- is a bulgarian former competitive figure skater .
having started skating at age three , she represented bulgaria at the 1994 winter olympics , placing 24th , and won the silver medal at the 1996 ondrej nepela memorial .
after tearing cruciate ligaments in the knee , she struggled to recover and retired from competition .
abrasheva married a journalist who played hockey in around 2000 and had a child two years later .
she became a sports journalist for bulgarian national television in around 2002 or 2003 and began commentating olympic events in 2006 .
