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Marie Reine Le Gougne is no Tonya Harding - the clubbing of Nancy Kerrigan was an outside job, an assault on the sport, not by it. She's no Arnold Rothstein - he rigged the 1919 World Series for money. She's not even one of those East German judges who used to fight the Cold War from high above the Olympic ice. But she is the face of the scandal that's ending the week as everyone's top story. Suddenly all of figure skating smells rotten, and the sport's all-powerful judges are faceless no more...
...magazine this week, senior reporter ALICE PARK profiles Long Island skater Sarah Hughes, the 16-year-old who, along with established star Michelle Kwan and the mesmerizing Sasha Cohen, completes the strongest U.S. figure-skating trio since Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding stirred hope for a medals sweep in 1992. Talk with Park about the U.S. team on Wednesday...
...figure-skating team heading to Salt Lake City, Hughes will be facing off with Kwan and Sasha Cohen for Olympic gold in what promises to be the most intense battle of the blades in a decade. The three make up the strongest U.S. contingent since Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding last stirred hope for a medals sweep in 1992. Yamaguchi and Kerrigan delivered, winning gold and bronze, respectively, while Harding finished fourth. "With all the girls skating so well and peaking at the right time, it certainly makes sense to talk about sweeping again this year," says Yamaguchi...
...Cohen was erratic in the season's first events but has an ability to transfix an audience with innovative moves that highlight her flexibility. Even without the quad, she may just possess that indescribable elan that sets Olympic champions apart. Oksana Baiul, the 1994 gold medalist, had it, defeating Kerrigan with her exuberant performance; Lipinski had it in Nagano...
...attack on skater Nancy Kerrigan was shocking and chilling enough. But when the rumblings began that Harding or her entourage might somehow be involved, a grimly familiar tale of random violence turned into something far more gothic. Even people without the faintest interest in the crystalline world of figure skating could not help marveling at the spectacle. Did the scrappy girl from the trailer parks, who has climbed so high and suffered so much, possibly plot to destroy her rival? Or did her violently jealous husband assemble a gang of goons to act without her knowledge but on her behalf...