Word: kerrigans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though she had been favored to win the national title, Kerrigan was forced to withdraw from the competition. Her doctors said she was suffering from * thigh contusions and swelling in the knee and was unable to control a simple hop, never mind a program that included several triple jumps. The assault cast a deep shadow on her ambition to earn a medal in next month's Olympics. However, even Kerrigan's rivals admitted that she deserved to be on the U.S. team, and on Saturday night officials in Detroit selected her over the runner- up, 13-year-old Michelle Kwan...
...vicious and mystifying attack brought to the fore the issue of safety for all athletes, particularly those in sports featuring individual competition in an atmosphere of relative openness and civility. The TV pictures of Kerrigan weeping and grimacing in pain were eerily familiar. Only last April, there were similar shots of tennis whiz Monica Seles, who was stabbed in the back in the midst of a match by a virulent fan of her rival, Steffi Graf. Seles has yet to return to competition. Her attacker was tried and freed on probation...
...Kerrigan's misfortune was especially poignant. As a skater, she has always been an enigma. Blessed with a solid, assured technique -- high, ample leaps, a long, elegant line and instinctive musicality -- she is an erratic competitor. On good days she has won national titles and, in 1992, an Olympic bronze medal. On bad days she has lost her nerve and scaled down her program by simplifying or eliminating the tough jumps. Says TV commentator and former - Olympic gold medalist Dick Button: "She is unusually strong as a skater, more so than most women, but in other ways she is very...
...Kerrigan is easily the most beautiful woman in the competition, with auburn hair and Hepburnesque cheekbones. Yet her striking appearance seems hardly to have registered on her truly unassuming nature. Her press conferences consist mostly of shrugging, making faces and giggling nervously. Facing the media on the day after the attack, she fought back tears as she underscored her hopes of getting to Lillehammer. "I was upset, hurt, angry," she said. "I really wanted to skate. I've been skating so well, and I wanted to go out and show everyone I didn't lose...
Under the strain of trying to land Olympic berths, Kerrigan's fellow skaters turned remarkably blind eyes to her downfall and to the issue of security. Skater after skater mumbled that it could have happened to anyone, but that it certainly wouldn't happen again, least of all to them. Veteran Brian Boitano -- Olympics-bound after winning the silver medal in Detroit -- was one of the few to show concern, admitting at a press conference that he too has been the target of harassing fans...