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What saved the day was the discovery that news from America in the South Pacific is thin and well aged. The first time a New Zealander brought up "the scandal involving that young woman," I felt safe in saying, "If you're talking about Tonya Harding, I think she brought a lot of it on herself...
...Tonya the name?" he said, looking mildly puzzled...
...just four years ago, The Winter Olympics were a setting for scandal and controversy and tabloid headlines, all Nancy and Tonya, catty remarks and vainglorious ambition. What a difference an Olympiad makes. Now, in a near rustic city in Japan, the Games beckon once again as a refuge from the snares of the world, where the tawdry can be banished (alas, except for commercial logos) and where the most compelling mysteries involve the intricacies of quad jumps, clap skates, luge weight and curling. For Nagano is robed in that symbol of purity: snow, unsullied and ready for the pursuit...
...senior ladies' in 1993 so the judges could see me, and maybe the next year they would give me second or third, and I would make the Olympic team." Carroll was livid when he returned, but Kwan qualified. When the Olympic year came, the Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding contretemps provided Kwan an opening. Kerrigan's injury allowed the 13-year-old Kwan to place second to Harding at the nationals and to qualify as an alternate in Lillehammer. The experience was not all she expected. As an alternate, she had to practice on a separate rink alone, once again feeling...
...collects stuffed animals and still lives at home, but he may be the toughest skater ever to enter the rink. He's tougher than Todd Eldredge, tougher than the Russians, tougher than Tonya Harding. Consider: the big rumor in Canada says that last summer Elvis Stojko, figure skater, 5 ft. 7 in., 158 lbs., got into a bar brawl with Eric Lindros, goonish hockey star, 6 ft. 4 in., 236 lbs.--and that Lindros got the short end of the stick. Never mind that everyone denies it happened. The point is, people believe it might have happened. It's like...