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The 1994 Olympics, with its melodramatic, widely followed confrontation between Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, changed the sport dramatically. TV suddenly woke up to skating's telegenic grace, and the number of staged competitions-produced primarily for TV and lacking the strict rules that have governed amateur meets in the...
Sometimes it seems as if all the great sports heroes are dead or deadbeats or accused of killing somebody. Are Pete Rose, Mike Tyson or O.J. Simpson role models? Only if the role is on a TV mini-series. The list of troubled sports stars goes on and on. Tennis...
4 Tonya Harding
Harding and her confederacy of dunces thought they could eliminate the Olympic figure-skating competition with one thwack of a metal baton on Nancy Kerrigan's leg. They would then skate to riches, and nobody would know better. In fact, everybody went to jail but Harding, who plea-bargained her...
Harding said he agreed with the task force's goals, but also advocated more parental involvement.