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| Nancy Kerrigan won the 1992 US Silver Medal in a Vera Wang outfit. (Photo: Mike Powell) |
Much has been written about Nancy Kerrigan.
The history of figure skating provides high drama and extreme personalities in every generation. Arrogance, anger, despair, and kindness, the Passions rule the Ice. And the skater's blade has no sharpness when compared to their competitive spirits. Don't let the fancy outfits fool you.
But Nancy Kerrigan and her tumultuous times took it to the limit. In 1991, if a writer were to plot out the events that were to occur in the figure skating world over the next three years, their story would have been rejected as an absurd parody. The outrageous characters, the overblown antagonism, the breathless sensationalism, these would have been considered pure hack work of a puerile imagination.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
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| Kerrigan won the '94 Olympic Silver in another Vera Wang outfit (Photo: Clive Brunskill) |
So let's celebrate Nancy's birthday today and remember those days of drama. ;-)
