Article: Incident gave women's figure skating new spin

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 ...

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