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Article: Incident gave women's figure skating new spin
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 11, 2004
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Incident gave women's figure skating new spin
Sport benefited from '94 scandal
By NANCY ARMOUR Associated Press
Sunday, January 11, 2004
Atlanta -- Ten years ago, a bumbling misfit took a whack at Nancy
Kerrigan's knee as she walked off the practice ice.
Figure skating hasn't been the same since.
With one swing of a retractable police baton, the dainty sport
that was the showpiece of the Winter Olympics morphed into
television's first reality show. Tonya and Nancy: the Ultimate Bad
Girl vs. the Ice Princess. High camp and drama.
The public couldn't get enough of it. Television ratings went
through the roof. Ice shows sold out. Skaters raked in millions, and
they no longer needed an Olympic ...