Many Fans Don't Think Kerrigan's Performance Was Mmm, Mmm Gold

Many Fans Don’t Think Kerrigan’s Performance Was Mmm, Mmm Gold

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March 5, 1994 12 AM PT

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Mike Downey,

Got some news for you, buddy. Nancy wasn’t the best, didn’t deserve the gold, and she sure as shooting ain’t a good sport. Her program, though technically quite proficient, was bland, lacked depth, and, as the referee said later, didn’t come from the heart like that of Oksana Baiul.

It was about as exciting as one of her soup commercials.

RICHARD SWAIN

Los Angeles

Nancy Kerrigan should get back on ice: She’s beginning to spoil.

BILL STEIN

Cambria

I, for one, am glad Baiul kicked our Big Mac-eating, 90210-watching, cotton Docker-wearing, complacent, creatively bereft, poor loser butts.

SCOTT LENZ

Los Angeles

Nancy Kerrigan skated in the ice rink called the American Dream, Oksana Baiul skated in the ice rink called the Olympic Ideal. Sorry, Mike Downey, but Nancy can’t hold a blade to Oksana. So take off your patriotic-colored glasses and just enjoy Oksana’s skating. She’s once in a lifetime.

STEVE BROTEN

Los Angeles

Once again, Americans like Mike Downey have proved what poor sports they are and, in the process, have belittled the brilliant performance of a 16-year-old. Nancy Kerrigan skated about as well as she could but lost by the slimmest of margins.

Let’s hope at the next Olympics that Michelle Kwan, who will be 17, won’t be treated by the foreign press in the same manner if she happens to win the gold.

PETER F. JUNKER

Los Angeles

If Nancy Kerrigan is second-rate, I wonder where those five judges put the rest of us.

HUGH GLASGOW

Cerritos

Nancy Kerrigan, America’s golden girl revealed: Shannon Doherty with ice skates.

JAIME PAGLIA

Sherman Oaks

Fortunately for Nancy, she is at least guaranteed millionaire status on her endorsements. Is this a great country or what?

WILLIAM BRADSHAW

San Diego

It is a sad day when a newspaper has, as the big story of the day, two women who skated well, and a small story about the first American woman in history to win five gold medals. Am I reading a gossip tabloid or a quality newspaper?

ABSALAM VILLESCAS JR.

Alhambra

America should be featuring winners, but Campbell’s soup, Reebok and Disney play up a loser. Bonnie Blair should be going to Disneyland and be featured as a winner by American corporations. This country needs winners and losers as role models for our youth. Bonnie Blair has worked to reach the top, and our corporations need to show our winners.

CALVIN TAJIMA

Altadena

How many Oregonians does it take to tie a shoelace?

RICHARD W. TOLBERT

Anaheim

Let’s all raise a glass to Tonya Harding for her super achievements both on and off the ice. She has truly achieved the triple klutz.

JOHN D. ANDREWS

How come Tonya Harding got a second chance to skate because her shoelace broke? The downhill skier did not get a second chance when his ski came off at the start. Quincy Watts did not get a second chance when his shoe split in the middle of the 400 meters. Equipment problems are part of sport.

I have had enough of Tonya’s bully tactics. She might have been able to scare the USOC or the Olympic judges, but do you think she will be able to intimidate the guards at the Oregon State Prison?

BRAD ELKINS

Encino

Tonya Harding should forget about the gold medal. She should go after an Oscar for best actress. She’d win it, hands down.

LINDA MANNION

West Covina

Between the USOC and the figure skating judges, I am glad the O-Wimp-ics are over.

DWIGHT CATES

Ventura

Listen up, kids. Want to be in the 1998 Winter Olympics? Then follow these rules or conditions:

1. You must come from a dysfunctional family.

2. Your mother must have been divorced three or four times.

3. You tried pot.