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...denies those claims and suggests that pressure was brought upon Le Gougne from "left and right"--implying that it came from Canadian skating officials as well. Whatever the truth turns out to be, international figure skating and the Olympic movement itself have been shaken as never before. Even before Tonya Harding went gunning for Nancy Kerrigan, figure skating had an image problem. Not on the ice. On the ice it's all double Axels and triple Salchows and Kristi Yamaguchi twirling straight onto the Wheaties box. Say all you want about the smiley dudes on their snowboards, but when...
...should just let 'em all race against the clock." Don't count on figure skating's being booted from the Games. It's too valuable a franchise. It always draws the biggest TV audiences of the Winter Games. And controversy only makes it more golden. The face-off between Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan in 1994 gained the largest audience of any Olympic broadcast in history...
...freestyle Tonya event, U.S. kneecappers, as expected, made a gold-silver-bronze sweep of it, but by and large the skullduggery inherent in cheating makes handicapping the favorites in most events difficult if not impossible. At Salt Lake City even the old stereotypes--nobody can cork a curling stone like a Canadian, the Swiss have a lock on clock slowing, don't even try outfoxing the French when it comes to slipping small animals into the luge run--promise to be severely tested. Blame escalating commercialism and its henchman, dollar power. Item: tiny Hindu Kush hires away the legendary snowshoe...
...Tonya Harding and her unfortunate crowbar antics were missed in Salt Lake City this year. But for figure skating fans with a leftover thirst for scandal, the Olympics did not disappoint. Matthew L. Butler ’04 was glued to the TV coverage of the controversial gold medal awards in the pairs figure skating competition for the same reasons most fans were: the beauty of the sport, the excitement of high level athletic achievement and, of course, crazy French judges. But Butler also had a bit more at stake in the success of the Russian skaters Yelena Berezhnaya...
...should just let 'em all race against the clock." Don't count on figure skating's being booted from the Games. It's too valuable a franchise. It always draws the biggest TV audiences of the Winter Games. And controversy only makes it more golden. The face-off between Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan in 1994 gained the largest audience of any Olympic broadcast in history...