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...senior ladies' in 1993 so the judges could see me, and maybe the next year they would give me second or third, and I would make the Olympic team." Carroll was livid when he returned, but Kwan qualified. When the Olympic year came, the Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding contretemps provided Kwan an opening. Kerrigan's injury allowed the 13-year-old Kwan to place second to Harding at the nationals and to qualify as an alternate in Lillehammer. The experience was not all she expected. As an alternate, she had to practice on a separate rink alone, once again feeling...
Today, the 1998 Winter Olympics begin in Nagano, Japan. Like their predecessor, the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, Norway, these Games brought drama and controversy to their site city well before the athletes themselves arrived for warm-ups and trials. However, unlike personal battles like the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan face-off that captivated the international press for months, the controversies surrounding Nagano are more impersonal and business-like. They highlight, if not the difference between East and West, then at least the difference in national styles and preferences that the Olympics always, perhaps unwillingly, bring into focus...
...back to Tonya. "We had a decision to make," Solomon says. He and Kerrigan knew "that going into the Olympics, this was going to be a big topic, and we could talk about it, or we could have gone to Aruba for a month...
Back in Lillehammer, the woman she beat was seen as an ungracious runner-up, especially after skipping the closing ceremonies. But now the silver medalist has her prize. Kerrigan, all of 28, had her parents bring 13-month-old Matthew to the show in Portland. She has told friends for years that all she ever really wanted was a family, and she absolutely glowed when she held her son in her arms...