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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know which skater would have gone to the Olympics if Tonya Harding had been booted off the team right away?

Because that is the person who really got cheated.  I wish that they had gotten the opportunity to skate in the Olympics in place of Harding that year.[/quote]

Elaine Zayak  finished 4th at the 1994 U.S. Championships and was named an alternate for the Olympic Games.
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Elaine Zayak was robbed then.  Where is her movie?[/quote]

Elaine Zayak wasn't the alternate nor was she the one who would have gone if Tonya had been banned.The US was only given 2 female figuring skating spots in that year's Olympics & , despite her not being able to finish the competition, the committee  (rightly, imo) chose to give one to NK. The other went to TH (the first place to finisher) & would have gone to Michelle Kwan (the second place finisher who was ultimately named the alternate) had TH not been allowed to compete. So MK was the one who was "robbed" that year.

Of course, nowadays, MK's age at the time (13) would disqualify her, too, since Olympians must be at least 16 by the end of that calender year. That's pretty much irrelevant, though, since even if both MK & TH were disqualified,  Elaine Zyak still wouldn't have been next in line for the second spot on the team -- it would have gone to Nicole Bobek, the third place finisher.

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