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...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 past-has multiplied. As a result, young skating stars today must not only beat back competition from the amateur ranks. They must also confront a new kind of rival: the pro skater. The stars who emerged from the past two Olympics have not faded into the half-life of touring ice shows...
...championship in Providence offered an exciting competition among closely matched athletes, but the level of performance was only mediocre. In the post-Kerrigan era, Bobek would appear to have an advantage because she is a true show skater who makes a big, jazzy impression whether or not the details fall into place. Last week they did; she made fewer mistakes than Michelle Kwan, 14, who was favored...
...this year's benefit, which featured Olympic medalist Nancy Kerrigan, was deemed successful by all. In fact, many contributors increased their donations in honor of the event's historic silver anniversary...
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 way to probation...
...Kerrigan asks "why people can server the negative connotation from every flag except" hers. One might answer that hers alone commemorates a bloody attempt to break up our country in order to protect a system of human bondage...