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...long campaign. When the New York Daily News headlined T.G.I.F., almost everyone could respond with relief. F usually means Friday, but better than that, final. First came the assault, then the arrests, then the wranglings in court. As the world watched with fascination, the January attack on Nancy Kerrigan fueled a media frenzy, amply supported by the public's craving for the latest swill. Checkbook journalists, dubious gurus and assorted sleaze hounds soon joined in. By the time the drama was served up cold on the Olympic rink, it had all the ingredients of a classic face-off: Kerrigan...
After all, all, all that, however, the gold medal in women's figure skating went to neither Nancy Kerrigan nor Tonya Harding but to Ukraine's Oksana Baiul. The outcome was a shock -- but not entirely a surprise. Any member of last Wednesday's TV sport audience knew that Harding was scarcely in physical shape to contend for a medal and that Kerrigan was stronger and more poised than she has ever been. But the enchantress was Baiul, 16, who presented herself elaborately costumed as the Black Swan in Tchaikovsky's ballet. Feathers...
...program, which secured the prize, was shakier, but she moved with rare, sinuous rhythms on the ice. And, irony of ironies, she was recovering from her own injuries suffered the day before. Her physical pain was evident, framing her performance with agony more immediate than the video memories of Kerrigan weeping in Detroit seven weeks ago. The bizarre accident in which the Ukrainian collided with a German competitor during practice had created not only a new victim but prepared the way for a new heroine. Baiul required stitches on her right shin and two injections of pain killers on Friday...
...drop these ridiculous labels. Let's keep in mind what Nancy Kerrigan really is to most of us who have never met her: a wonderful skater who entertained the world with a spectacular performance...
...most important, let's stop talking about Kerrigan. The Olympics are over, the flame has been extinguished, so can we at last put an end to Skategate...