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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...
...attack was sudden, the aftermath wrenching -- a lovely young woman brought low, down on the floor, screaming and crying out, "Why? Why? It hurts so much. Why me?" Nancy Kerrigan, 24, the most accomplished and graceful of the current crop of U.S. figure skaters, had just finished a practice session for last week's national championships in Detroit, when a man approached her from behind. Wordlessly, without warning, he delivered a violent blow to her right leg with a clublike object. Some witnesses thought it was a crowbar, others a baseball bat. No one knows for sure because the assailant...
...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...
About 250 Eliot House residents, more than half the house population, have volunteered their time to the show. Paul Wylie '91, a 1992 Olympic silver medalist, and Nancy Kerrigan, a 1992 Olympic bronze medalist, are two of the more than 25 world-class skaters featured in the showcase...