From Dorothy Hamill to Michelle Kwan, amount skating has generated a lot of ice princesses and ball queens.
Here’s a quick analysis of some of the skating greats of decades accomplished and a attending at area they are today:
Nancy Kerrigan
The Massachusetts built-in came in third in the 1992 Olympics and additional at the 1994 Olympics, but she is apparently best accepted for “The Whack Heard Round the World.”
During the 1994 U.S. nationals, Tonya Harding’s ex-husband orchestrated an advance on Kerrigan. She’d been advantaged to win, but afterwards the knee assault administered by Harding’s hooligans, she had to withdraw.
In 2008, the adventure was memorialized on date in agreeable alleged “Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera,” in 2014 ESPN documentary acquired the accomplished Nancy-Tonya adventure and this year a brace of comedians opened up a Tonya and Chichi building in Brooklyn.
Despite it all, Kerrigan is still skating and in October, she did a 15-city Halloween skating bout featuring a family-friendly Halloween account involving princesses and vampires.
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Tonya Harding
Unequivocally the best acclaimed bad babe in amount skating, Harding was additionally an abundantly accomplished skater.
In 1991, she became the aboriginal American changeable to acreage a abecedarian Axel in antagonism — a accomplishment that wasn’t afresh until Kimmie Meissner did it in 2005.
She won nationals in 1991 and afresh afresh in 1994, but in the after-effects of “The Whack Heard Round the World,” Harding was bare of her additional civic appellation and eventually accustomed three years of probation, 500 hours of association account and a $160,000 fine.
Around the aforementioned time she and her knee-beating admirer awash a sex band to Penthouse, applique $200,000 additional royalties, according to Deadspin — so apparently she didn’t accept a botheration advantageous the fine.
Harding concluded up with a lifetime ban from competition, but she went on to do some added accidental and absorbing things.
The Oregon built-in fabricated appearances on shows like “Larry King Live” and “Roseanne” and had a abrupt battle career in the aboriginal 2000s.
In 2010, she got affiliated to TV analyst Joseph Price and the afterwards year, at 40, she gave bearing to her aboriginal child.
Kristi Yamaguchi
Yamaguchi won the 1992 Albertville Olympics, assault out Midori Ito and Chichi Kerrigan. Afterward, like abounding added skating stars of her day, she went on to accompany “Stars on Ice.”
In 1996, she founded the Always Dream Foundation, a nonprofit that serves at-risk and disabled youth.
The afterwards year, she authored “Figure Skating for Dummies” and she’s additionally contributed to “Chicken Soup for the Soul.”
She affiliated Bret Hedican, a hockey abecedarian she met at the Olympics, in 2000 and now they accept two daughters, Keara and Emma.
In 2009, she won the sixth division of “Dancing with the Stars” forth with accomplice Mark Ballas.
Now, she sells a band of conditioning clothes alleged Tsuya — her average name — and writes children’s book. In October, she was inducted into the California Hall of Fame.
Paul Wylie
Paul Wylie acquired acclaim with a abruptness second-place accomplishment at the 1992 Olympics. He was already a Harvard alum afore the Olympics, but afterwards he toured with Stars on Ice afore activity aback for a additional amount — a Harvard MBA in 2000.
He’s affiliated to a above ice hockey goalie and has mostly backward out of the headlines. But, in April, NBC appear that he suffered a abrupt cardiac arrest that about dead him.
Since then, Ice Network appear that he’s been on the mend and out giving speeches.
Surya Bonaly
Originally a gymnast, Bonaly transitioned to skating, but kept some of her gymnastics moves: She was best accepted for her backflip.
She performed the backflip in antagonism — alike at Olympics — admitting alive it was illegal.
Even today, her Twitter bio says, “If accomplishing backflips in accessible antagonism is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.”
Always a insubordinate and a arguable amount in the skating world, at the 1994 Apple Championships, she abundantly took off her argent badge as she stood on the belvedere — to beef what she acquainted was an arbitrary placement. Bonaly believed she’d skated bigger than champ Yuka Sato.
Since backward from Olympic competition, Bonaly has connected to skate in shows and accomplish the triples and backflips for which she was so able-bodied known.
Also, she’s been a vegetarian activist, actualization in assorted PETA ads.
Scott Hamilton
Hamilton won the Sarajevo Olympics in 1984 and is acclaimed for his able-bodied and absorbing skating as able-bodied as his crazily fast able sequences.
After backward from Olympic competition, Hamilton skated in ice shows and in the backward 1980s he cofounded “Stars on Ice.”
In 1997 he was diagnosed with cancer, although afterwards analysis he alternate to skating and appear a memoir.
Hamilton affiliated in 2002 and he and wife Tracie had two kids — Aidan, 12, and 7-year-old Maxx.
Then, aftermost year, he adopted two kids from Haiti — ancestors 11-year-old Evelyne and 13-year-old Jean Paul — according to NBC.
In 2007, he played a bit allotment in “Blades of Glory” and now does a cardinal of accessible speaking appearances every year.
He’s additionally gotten into politics, admitting on the sidelines. In the 2012 presidential elections, Hamilton went on bout giving butt speeches for Republican applicant Mitt Romney.
Dorothy Hamill
Known in pop ability for her bob-style haircut, Dorothy Hamill became America’s sweetheart afterwards absolute the gold at the 1976 Olympics.
Afterward, she abutting the Ice Capades for a cardinal of years and afresh started her own skating productions, including “The Nutcracker.” She nabbed a daytime Emmy for her 1983 assembly of “Romeo & Juliet on Ice.”
In 2006, she appeared as a adjudicator on “Skating with Celebrities” and anon thereafter she put out an autobiography.
She was advised for breast blight in 2008 and in 2009 she started an developed amount skating fantasy affected in Nantucket.
Then, in 2013 she was aback on awning aback she competed in “Dancing with the Stars,” although in the end she had to abjure due to a assumption injury.
Peggy Fleming
Fleming won U.S. Nationals afresh in the 1960s and went on to win the 1968 Olympics cutting the adhesive blooming long-sleeved dress apparent in her best iconic pictures. That win was allegorical for the U.S., as it apparent the activation of American skating in the after-effects of the even blast that dead the absolute 1961 apple team.
After backward from abecedarian competition, she appeared in skating shows like “Ice Capades” and “Ice Follies” and formed as a TV commentator.
In 1998, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, but she survived and went on to address a account alleged “The Long Program.”
In 2010, she was in the account briefly aback she was aching in a car blow during the Vancouver Olympics and afresh in 2012 aback she and her bedmate awash their business, Fleming Jenkins Vineyards and Winery.
Nicole Bobek
Bobek’s better achievement was her win at the 1995 U.S. championships and her apple championship brownish badge that aforementioned year.
Although she competed in the 1998 Olympics, she had a bit of a bad babe acceptability in skating — she sometimes smoked, skipped convenance and, according to The Today Show, was already on adolescent probation.
After some touring, she alone out of the skating arena for a little while and afresh in 2009 was aback in the account aback she was arrested on meth accuse in New Jersey. Sentenced to bristles years of probation, she confused in with her parents in Florida.
Now 38, she’s aback to skating — but she’s additionally into bazaar stunts and has done some shows accumulation the two.
Katarina Witt
Known as a angry competitor, Katarina Witt bedeviled skating in the 1980s. She won the 1984 Olympics and came aback for “The Battle of the Carmens” in 1988.
Both Witt and her American battling Debit Thomas skated to “Carmen” at the Calgary competition, although Witt came out on top, absolute her additional Olympic title. (That win fabricated her the aboriginal German woman to win after Olympic golds aback Sonja Henie in the 1930s.)
Since then, she’s kept busy.
After the abatement of the Berlin wall, she started actualization in added skating shows and TV specials, including the Emmy Award-winning 1990 HBO appropriate “Carmen on Ice.”
Then, in 1994 aback a ancient rules change accustomed retired skaters to reinstate and compete, she skated in the Lillehammer Olympics and placed seventh.
According to her website, she founded a skating assembly aggregation in the mid-1990s and has aback overseen shows like “Divas on Ice” and “Winter Magic.”
Witt fabricated account in 1998 aback she airish naked for “Playboy” and afresh in 2002 aback The Telegraph wrote about baldheaded files assuming she’d been on appealing comfortable agreement with East German badge afore the abatement of the Berlin Wall.
Witt started a accommodating foundation in 2005 to account accouchement and adolescence with disabilities and after appear a memoir.
In 2009, she took to the date aback she played a role in a Berlin assembly of “Everyman.”
This year, aloof afore her 50th birthday, Witt appear a German-language book, “So viel Leben,” which translates to “So Much Life.”
Brian Boitano
Boitano won the 1988 Olympics, acquisition Brian Orser in what was afresh absorbed as “The Battle of the Brians.”
Afterward, he competed on the able ambit and skated in the award-winning 1990 TV feature, “Carmen on Ice.”
Then, in 1994, he — like Witt — alternate to Olympic antagonism at the Lillehammer games. He placed sixth and went aback to skating in shows.
In 1997 he appear a large-format photo article adventures and in 1999 he became a domiciliary name all over afresh aback the South Park cine featured a song blue-blooded “What Would Brian Boitano Do?”
He angry from skating to affable in 2009 aback he starred in a Food Network alternation alleged “What Would Brian Boitano Make?”
After actuality called to the official U.S. 2014 Sochi Olympics appointment in 2013, Boitano fabricated a burst afresh aback he came out as gay.
Today, at 52, Boitano is still skating in shows.
Michelle Kwan
Kwan is a five-time apple champ and backstab Olympics medalist. She almost absent the Olympic gold to Tara Lipinski in 1998 and afresh in 2002, in addition disappointment, she took home the brownish medal.
She seemed destined to affirmation her behind gold badge at the 2006 Olympics until she had to abjure due to an injury.
After her skating career, Kwan completed a master’s amount at Tufts University and went on to snag a job at the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
She activated for a acquaintance at the White House, but told The Washington Post that she absent out to Clay Pell — who after became her fiance. The brace got affiliated in 2013.
In June, Hillary Clinton’s attack appear that Kwan was advancing on lath as a full-time staffer.
