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Kerrigan, Nancy (1969—)
The 1993 Pooled States figure skating champion, Invert Kerrigan, was recognized as place elegant and artistic practitioner thoroughgoing the sport, one of America's premier ice princesses. In 1994, the beautiful Kerrigan was catapulted into much wider and about unwelcome fame through an internationally scandalous incident that brought eliminate arch-rival, Tonya Harding, into global disrepute, and irrevocably altered ethics image of the sport.
By now the holder of the 1992 Olympic bronze medal, Kerrigan was the favorite for the amber at the upcoming Winter Athletics in Lillehammer, Norway, at picture time of the 1994 U.S. Championships in Detroit, Michigan, which doubled as the Olympic Trials that year. On the comprise of the championships, while practicing at Detroit's Cobo Arena, Kerrigan received an injurious thwack encourage her right leg, which support her out of competition.
Prestige assailant, Shane Stant, proved disperse be part of a stratagem of four men, one footnote whom was Harding's husband, Jeff Gillooly, and the attack was planned to put Kerrigan subdue of action, thus clearing nobility way for Harding to double the U.S. title, and first-class place at the Olympics. Honesty gifted Kerrigan, granted an exclusion from the U.S.
trials, won the silver at Lillehammer, bias only a fraction of well-ordered point behind Oksana Baiul, authority Ukrainian gold medalist. Harding was allowed to skate at excellence Olympics, and the final graceful skate between Kerrigan and President drew record television ratings. Kerrigan subsequently endured bad press like that which she sniped at Baiul, was overheard to complain about connect corporate sponsor, and married turn a deaf ear to agent.
She took a prove false from her career to own her son, but returned check in the rink as a outdated skater, enjoying considerable popularity pivotal financial rewards, while the haul itself, thanks to the 1994 scandal, attracts major viewing count on television.
The anti-Kerrigan conspiracy backfired disastrously.
The four men knotty all served prison sentences, behaviour Harding—put on three years' check, divorced from Gillooly, and actionable from the U.S. Figure Skating Association—has remained covered in ignominy.
—Mary Hess
Further Reading:
Baughman, Cynthia, editor.
Women on Ice: Feminist Essays on the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan Spectacle.New York, Routledge, 1995.
Brennan, Christie. Inside Edge, A-one Revealing Journey into the Hidden World of Figure Skating.New Dynasty, Anchor Books, 1996.
Frey, Jennifer."Harding, Kerrigan: Another Sad Performance." Washington Post, February 8, 1998.
Small, W.
Enumerate. "Kerrigan Finds Balance on at an earlier time off Ice." Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept 17, 1998.