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...Kerrigan & Friends. Her program looked clean and vigorous, though her spins still lack impetus. Until then, her recovery was conducted in secrecy. The rink in South Dennis, Massachusetts, where she works, was guarded right up to the roof. But even before the show aired, her coaches, Evy and Mary Scotvold, were ebullient. Kerrigan wanted to hit the ice jumping. But Evy insisted on caution because of scar tissue: "We've had to push it, but we couldn't push it to the point of reinjury because then you're through." So there were sessions of swimming and weight lifting...
Prague changed her life. Starting last July, she dramatically escalated her training, doing double and even triple run-throughs of her long program, a feat that requires formidable energy. Now, says Evy Scotvold, "she's very, very determined. She's got a mission in life; she's absolutely certain she's going to get that gold...
...rival last week, Kerrigan said, "I think it's personal, and between the two of us and not you guys." When she chatted with her coaches and doctor at rinkside, someone lowered a boom mike to pick up the conversation. "Can they do that?" she asked. Says Evy Scotvold: "She just can't get any space. She's never had this kind of impact." Now that Harding is Norway-bound, the frenzy will be greater. Both American contestants face a battle for focus. And in this situation, there is no court where Harding...
Still, according to her coach Evy Scotvold, the nurturing and support Kerrigan receives has bred some immaturity and insecurity. "She's a very dependent person," he says. It was not until 1992 that Kerrigan moved out of her parents' wood-frame home in blue-collar Stoneham, Massachusetts. But last week, when Kerrigan wasn't doing her daily round of physical therapy and hydrotherapy sessions, she was home with her parents in Stoneham, with all the world camped outside. Asked at a snowy press conference what would make a happy ending to her story, Kerrigan made no mention of medals...
...fact, security at the event was haphazard, especially at the practice rink, where Kerrigan was attacked. Her coach, Evy Scotvold, said he saw no security guards in the practice area just before the attack. U.S. Figure Skating Association officials were on the defensive, pointing out their elaborate system of accrediting everyone -- press, judges, officials, VIPS -- who had reason to be anywhere but in the spectator seats...