Word: medals
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...East bloc countries and a German judge from the defunct Democratic Republic. Since the early 1980s, the majority of the nine judges' rankings has carried the day rather than the old system of totaling all points; if Kerrigan had been competing in 1976, when Dorothy Hamill won, the gold medal would have been hers...
...postcontest press conference -- she was instead "the first-place girl." Claire Ferguson, president of the U.S. Figure Skating Association (U.S.F.S.A.), snapped, "Nancy doesn't have that sassy look that Oksana has." It didn't help matters that Baiul's coach, Galina Zmievskaya, marched around wearing the gold medal and boasted, "It's mine...
...major disappointment was France's Surya Bonaly, who ended in fourth place. Her mighty jumps gave a vitamin shot to the proceedings, but she tired and fell out of a leap or two near the end. As for Katarina Witt, the 1988 gold-medal winner, she placed seventh -- again, no thanks to the judges. She had suffered through months of jeering that she was returning to competition for frivolous reasons. But her long program was the best choreographed and most stylish of the contest. Unlike the jump-and-spin fests offered by most contestants, hers had varied pacing and intricate...
...That I'm Bitter, But ... : Believing the medal ceremony was delayed as Oksana Baiul touched up her makeup, Nancy Kerrigan said: "Oh, come on. So she's going to get out here and cry again. What's the difference?" The delay was caused by a search for a copy of Ukraine's anthem...
Ukrainian teenager Oksana Baiul left Lillehammer with a gold medal in women's figure skating, after surviving a collision during practice that left her with a bruised spine and three stitches in her shin. Nancy Kerrigan, clubbing victim, went home with a silver ... and doubtless a fistful of new endorsement offers. Her bitter rival, Tonya Harding, flubbed the technical portion of the competition, aborted her first pass at the long performance, complaining of a badly tied lace, and finished eighth. She returns to face legal problems...