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...Skater Tonya Harding reported being assaulted and bruised by a man last Thursday night as she was heading through a park toward the Beaverton, Oregon, apartment where she has been staying with friends. Police are searching for the attacker...
...knows how Baiul will handle her new celebrity? She dotes on a stuffed rabbit given to her by another idol, skater Jill Trenary. She is a fountain of emotion, weeping at good news or bad. Her American agent, Michael Rosenberg, is exultant at the gold. Asked about his strategy for his young client, he says, "I see her as the next Judy Garland." For the coming phase, Baiul will need all the determination that brought her so far so fast, because that statement is enough to make you weep...
...knocked her off balance in the 500-m short-track speed-skating final, Chinese silver medalist Zhang Yanmei refused to pose with Turner at the podium and flung her bouquet to the ground. As China lodged a protest, Canadian Nathalie Lambert sympathized, calling Cathy Turner "the dirtiest skater." On Saturday, Turner was disqualified from the 1,000-m for illegally cutting off another competitor. Said Turner: "The judges were just waiting...
...injured skater wins the gold -- but it's not Nancy Kerrigan...
...fifth gold, in the 1,000-m race, made speed skater Bonnie Blair the most bemedaled competitor in U.S. women's Olympic history. After seven Olympic failures, Blair's fellow skater Dan Jansen set a world record in the 1,000-m race and got to carry the American flag in Sunday's closing ceremony. Norway's hometown boy, speed skater Johann Olav Koss, became the first athlete ever to win three golds with world-record times in one Games. Vreni Schneider of Switzerland won the women's slalom, becoming the first woman to win three Alpine gold medals...