REVISING THE CALENDAR
The Lillehammer Games come just two years after the Albertville Games, with the IOC voting in 1986 to change the every-fourth-year format so that the Summer and Winter Olympics would be held in different years. The move to alternate the Summer and Winter Games two years helps increase television revenues.
NANCY AND TONYA PRE-GAMES
Womenher husband and even herself, Harding halts a possible bar from the Games by threatening to sue the intervening U.S. Olympic Committee. The USOC allows Harding to skate as a member of the U.S. team along with Kerrigan.
NANCY AND TONYA ROUND TWO
In Lillehammer, Nancy Kerrigan shows little sign of her previous injury as she competes in the womenoses the gold to the orphan teen on the tiebreaker based on artistic-merit scores. Harding embarrasses herself by showing up late and claiming a problem with her laces should earn her a restart to her less-than-stellar start. She later pleads guilty to lesser charges stemming from her involvement in the attack on Kerrigan and the subsequent criminal investigation.
THREE GOLDS, THREE RECORDS
Norwegian speedskater Johann Olav Koss not only claims three gold medals in the 1,500-, 5,000- and 10,000-meter races en, whose stellar international career had been tainted by numerous Olympic disappointments, finally wins a gold medal in his eighth and final try. Despite a fall in the mene in the Winter Olympics.
WECOME TO THE BIG SHOW
Freestyle skiing, which had been a demonstration sport just two years previous in Albertville, is elevated to medal status at Lillehammer.
WHAT A WAY, NORWAY
The Norwegians are praised for their successful, well-organized Winter Olympics, as well as for an environmentally minded effort. The IOC amends its selection process for host cities after witnessing Norway
