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...public's craving for the latest swill. Checkbook journalists, dubious gurus and assorted sleaze hounds soon joined in. By the time the drama was served up cold on the Olympic rink, it had all the ingredients of a classic face-off: Kerrigan, the almost too model American miss vs. Tonya Harding, the grungy underdog whose ex-husband and entourage allegedly tried to knock off Kerrigan to establish their own proletarian ice queen -- and money machine...
After all, all, all that, however, the gold medal in women's figure skating went to neither Nancy Kerrigan nor Tonya Harding but to Ukraine's Oksana Baiul. The outcome was a shock -- but not entirely a surprise. Any member of last Wednesday's TV sport audience knew that Harding was scarcely in physical shape to contend for a medal and that Kerrigan was stronger and more poised than she has ever been. But the enchantress was Baiul, 16, who presented herself elaborately costumed as the Black Swan in Tchaikovsky's ballet. Feathers...
Even before Nancy and Tonya skated onto center ice, the Winter Olympics were making TV history. For the first 11 days of the Games, prime-time viewership was up 37% over '92. Then, for the women's short program on Wednesday night, ratings soared to an astonishing 48.5, meaning 48.5% of all U.S. homes with TV sets were tuned in, making that broadcast the sixth highest rated TV show of all time. Friday night's figure-skating finale garnered a smaller but still huge...
...feature material, not enough action; too much cheerleading from the commentators; too much coy withholding of the video for key events until prime time. Yet nothing CBS Sports did was quite as embarrassing as the performance by the network's news division. Connie Chung spent 1 1/2 weeks playing Tonya Harding's shadow. And Dan Rather joined her in fake-cuddly promotional spots for the CBS Evening News that may drive away the few viewers it has left...
...Lillehammer with a gold medal in women's figure skating, after surviving a collision during practice that left her with a bruised spine and three stitches in her shin. Nancy Kerrigan, clubbing victim, went home with a silver ... and doubtless a fistful of new endorsement offers. Her bitter rival, Tonya Harding, flubbed the technical portion of the competition, aborted her first pass at the long performance, complaining of a badly tied lace, and finished eighth. She returns to face legal problems...