Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan wasannin Olympics, Berezhnaya / Sikharulidze sun fafata a gasar zakarun duniya ta 1998 inda suka lashe lambar zinare. Daga baya a wannan shekarar, sun ɗan jima suna horo a Stamford Twin Rinks a Stamford, Connecticut. Sun lashe gasar Skate America ta 1998 da NHK Trophy ta 1998. A watan Janairun 1999, dole ne su janye daga Gasar Turai bayan gajeren shirin saboda Berezhnaya yana da mura. Sun lashe lambar yabo ta biyu a gasar zakarun duniya ta 1999
a watan Maris na shekarar 1999.