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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Other PP here. I don't know who is faulting Kerrigan, but I do think that she made herself rather unlikable with her lack of personality, and her facial expression (lack of sportsmanship) when she won silver, and marrying her married coach.  I don't think anyone ever expected Kerrigan to get gold (if I recall correctly). I definitely did not see Oksana coming, at the time.  She was just so fun, young, spunky, talented and full of likable personality.  LOVE Oksana, don't know what she has done since (I haven't really looked any of these people up).  PP here. Team Oksana, though! [/quote]

Kerrigan skated beautifully during the Olympics.  She was every much a contender for the gold as Oksana was.

Kerrigan had really been put through it with the attack, her recovery from her injury, the press and just the plain ugliness of what had happened to her.  It was A LOT for her to go through on top of the already intense training that all Olympic athletes go through to be the best in their sport.

Kerrigan really thought that she had earned the gold medal.  A lot of people did. And it was natural to want to see such a harrowing ordeal end with a gold medal.  I think that she was just plain emotionally spent when she stood on the podium and was honored with her silver.[/quote]

In the first jumping pass of her long program, she did a double loop instead of a triple loop. She didn't fall, had a lovely overall presence and programs, and of course her signature spiral. But she didn't have as many triple jumps, as complex spins, or as much overall speed as Oksana. She didn't deserve the gold that night, pure and simple. Yes, Nancy went through a lot. But so did Oksana--she was literally an orphan hanging out at an ice rink in the Ukraine.[/quote]

Yes, I agree that Oksana won fair and square. And I am aware that Oksana did not have an easy life going into the Olympics.  She also had an adorable personality. But Nancy's performances were stunning and I can see how people were disappointed when she didn't win the gold.  People were emotionally wrapped up and invested in Kerrigan.  It was a crazy situation for sure.[/quote]

Listen one poster here said something negative about Nancy and you spend three pages going on about how graceful and magical she was (and for the record I, classist poster, am not the poster that spoke negatively of her).

Nancy was an Olympic level skater who won the silver medal, she was obviously a good skater. She was not more or less exceptional or special than any of the other skaters we've talked about here. They all sacrificed their young adult lives to the rink and they are all two good routines away from the big show. Nancy didn't even have to do that, they chose to put her on the team without making her compete because of the scandal. I don't disagree with that decision but it was also a gift to not even have to make it through those two performances.

The tone of your posts, talking about her and what happened to her like it was some like. I mean it's kind of proving my points. Oksana and Tonya's entire lives were getting hit on the knee with a baseball bat but without that second part where they suddenly became America's sweethearts and put on the Olympic team without having to compete (for the record, I don't disagree with the team's decision but it was a gift). When i say that I'm not saying that Nancy deserved it or that Tonya wasn't guilty or was a good person. I'm simply pointing out that this perception of Nancy as 'stunning' 'beautiful' 'emotionally spent'...no one had that for Tonya before she went off the deep end, which is perhaps why she did what she did. And I can say that without exonerating Tonya of guilt. It says more about us and our culture than it says about Tonya or Nancy as individuals.[/quote]

The decision to send Nancy Kerrigan to the Olympics in spite of her inability to compete in the Championship Competition was done so not out of pity but because Kerrigan was widely regarded to be the top female U.S. figure skater at the time with everyone else competing for a distant 2nd.  That is why Harding's hoodlums very specifically targeted Kerrigan to "take out".  They had intended to inflict a career ending broken knee cap.  These are the folks that Harding was hanging around with.

And please don't compare Oksana with Tonya Harding.  Oksana gave stunning, beautiful, emotional performances at the Olympics - she competed fair and square and she can wear that gold medal proudly.  She earned it.

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Two sides of the same coin. I was reading something the other day and it had this metaphor,  two brothers are raised by a drunken abusive father. One goes on to be a sober model father and member of the community and the other goes on to be an abusive unstable drunk. You ask them why they are the way they are and they both said, 'with a father like I had how could I have become anyone else?' People are different, they don't all have the personality to bounce back into a model citizen.

And every skater, even the best skaters, can fall and lose their place. That's the reason we hold our breath when we watch them jump. I don't disagree with what the Olympic committee did at all, but it was a gift. [/quote]

You look stupid when you keep calling it a “gift.”  The USFSA didn't name Kerrigan to the Olympic team because they felt sorry for her and wanted to give her a consolation prize.  They named her to the team because they wanted to win an Olympic medal in ladies figure skating, and they knew that a healthy Kerrigan was their best shot.  Same reason that Adam Rippon is going to South Korea and Ross Miner is sitting at home in Boston.

Stop embarrassing yourself, PP.[/quote]

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