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Abigail Miriam Feder <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 28 Feb 1994 10:18:12 -0800
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> I'm afraid I don't have any Nancy Kerrigan jokes to share (unfortunately).
> Since the Olympics is a current thread on this list I'll use it as a forum
> to express my outrage.  Couldn't Kerrigan have had the decency to wait
> until the Olympics were over before selling out to the Big Mouse?  What
> the heck was she doing at Disney World on the day of the closing
> ceremonies?  What about those high minded Olympic ideals that she
> supposedly exemplifes (the same ideals the supposedly evil Tonya
> violated)?  Kerrigan has not only shown herself to be greedy but also an
> ungracious runner up.  Torvill and Dean were robbed.  Kerrigan came in
> second in a fair contest.  Why isn't Bonnie Blair, a truly great athlete,
> getting $$$ million in endorsements?  And Blair went to the closing
> ceremonies, too.
> Mary Kalfatovic, Washington, D.C.
 
I do think this Olympics provides us with an excellent opportunity for
exploring the construction of such concepts as "Olympic ideal" and
"amateur" (how many amateurs compete in $13,000 dresses while being
featured in three commercials running at the same time as the event,
as Kerrigan did)
 
And how about such concepts as "overcoming adversity."  Again,
Kerrigan coming back from her attack by the three stooges was a bigger
story than Duncan Kennedy, the American luger who was attacked by
skinheads while defending an African American teammate.  And why is
Dan Jansen's one gold medal after choking repeatedly a bigger story
than Blair's sustained excellence?
 
                -Abby Feder>

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