Editing 1994 Winter Olympics (section)

===Figure skating===
{{main|Figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics}}
[[File:Stamp of Ukraine. Baiul.jpg|thumb|upright|Oksana Baiul]]

On 6 January, [[Tonya Harding]]'s ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly and his friend Shawn Eckardt, conspired with Shane Stant to [[Assault of Nancy Kerrigan|club fellow female figure skater Nancy Kerrigan in the knee]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1004829/index.htm |last=Swift |first=E. M. |title=Anatomy of a Plot |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=14 February 1994 |access-date=11 December 2012 |archive-date=2 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102223017/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1004829/index.htm |url-status=dead  }}</ref> Both Harding and Kerrigan were selected for the Olympic team. After Harding admitted to helping to cover up the attack, the [[United States Olympic Committee]] initiated proceedings to remove her from the Olympic team, but Harding retained her place after threatening legal action.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=3 |title=Mass Moments: Skater Nancy Kerrigan Assaulted |publisher=Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities |access-date=13 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126033602/http://massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=3 |archive-date=26 November 2010 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> In the [[Figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Ladies' singles|ladies' singles]], Ukraine's [[Oksana Baiul]] narrowly won ahead of Kerrigan and [[Chen Lu (figure skater)|Chen Lu]], with Harding finishing eighth.<ref>LOOC (IV): 148</ref><ref name=nyt940108/> In the [[Figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Men's singles|men's singles]], Russia's [[Alexei Urmanov]] won ahead of Canada's [[Elvis Stojko]] and France's [[Philippe Candeloro]].<ref>LOOC (IV): 147</ref> Relaxation of the rules led to several former stars returning, such as [[Figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Ice dancing|ice dancing]] 1984 Champions Great Britain's [[Jayne Torvill]] and [[Christopher Dean]], who took a bronze behind Russians [[Oksana Grishuk]] and [[Evgeny Platov]], and [[Maya Usova]] and [[Alexander Zhulin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1994/FSK/mixed-ice-dancing.html |title=Figure Skating at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games: Mixed Ice Dancing |publisher=Sports Reference |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100227011316/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1994/FSK/mixed-ice-dancing.html |archive-date=27 February 2010 |access-date=12 December 2010 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> In [[Figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Pairs|pair skating]], the Russians also took a double, with [[Ekaterina Gordeeva]] and [[Sergei Grinkov]] winning ahead of [[Natalia Mishkutenok]] and [[Artur Dmitriev]].<ref>LOOC (IV): 145</ref>