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...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...
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...
Under the strain of trying to land Olympic berths, Kerrigan's fellow skaters turned remarkably blind eyes to her downfall and to the issue of security. Skater after skater mumbled that it could have happened to anyone, but that it certainly wouldn't happen again, least of all to them. Veteran Brian Boitano -- Olympics-bound after winning the silver medal in Detroit -- was one of the few to show concern, admitting at a press conference that he too has been the target of harassing fans...
...gold medal teams. But economic hard times along with the departure of star players for lucrative contracts in the West have forced the Ministry of Defense, which oversees the team, to redeploy forces. At a game at the Red Army rink last week, the star performer was not a skater but a bear. A dancing bear. In a team uniform...
...company, Boston-based Vital Sciences, Inc.,was founded by Dr. Tenley E. Albright '53-55, a1961 graduate of the Medical School and formerOlympic figure skater. Vital Sciences reportedlyinvested $9 million in Fossel's research...