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...need to be a seer to predict one of tonight's top stories on TV. Come hell or high water, there will be a segment on the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan...
...media frenzy this story has touched off raises the interesting question of why this particular act has proven to be so enthralling. "Why me?" screamed a recent Newsweek cover featuring a tearful head-shot of the slightly-maimed skater. "Why this story?" might be a better question. The incident has been proclaimed a "tragedy" over and over again; yet no one is dead or even seriously wounded. The animus of the plot--namely, hindering one's competition by underhanded means--is by no means extraordinary. In North America's other on-ice sport, certain players are retained specifically for this...
...circle of intrigue tightened around figure skater Tonya Harding last week as her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly was arrested and charged with assault in the Jan. 6 attack on Harding's rival, Nancy Kerrigan. Meanwhile, Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt, implicated her in the attack in an affidavit released by police and in an interview on ABC's PrimeTime Live. Harding, who was questioned by the fbi for nearly 11 hours, maintains her innocence and has not been charged...
...just 16 years old. He likes to pass on tales of working in Peru sabotaging pipelines and training in antiterrorist tactics in Israel. Having worked as Tonya Harding's bodyguard for two months, he is now passing along tales about her -- indeed, three different ones. The first clears the skater of any wrongdoing in the attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan; the second implicates her on hearsay evidence; the third implicates her directly. Based on his past bouts of braggadocio, it's impossible to know which of Eckardt's allegations deserve a 6.0 for technical merit and which earn...
...Harding makes it to Lillehammer, she is likely to meet up again with Kerrigan. Last week the injured skater showed signs of rapid recovery, successfully running through her routines, albeit with minor jumping adjustments. Then Kerrigan took off for California to shoot a Reebok commercial -- just the sort of lucrative deal Harding dreams...