jiu jitsu lady foils attack on Nancy Kerrigan, Kristi competes in '94, how big Harding-Kerrigan stor

The club never strikes Nancy's knee. A jiu jitsu lady foils the attack AND captures one of the two assailants. So, the whole story comes out about the connection to Tonya Harding's husband Jeff.

Plus 1992 Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi competes again in the '94 Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway.*

How much media coverage does the resulting Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan story receive?

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Bonus points if you can come up with an angle or two the media did not cover OTL. Good Luck! :)

* This is how and when they made the change to stagger the Winter and Summer games.
 
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As I remember in OTL, there was a medium-strong case that Tonya at least knew in advance.

So many hours of journalism that even people watching were maybe annoyed with themselves.

And at the end of all of that, not a slam dunk case.
 
So paradoxically, with much briefer coverage where the foiled attack is mentioned in passing and perhaps get a little coverage,

people might draw the implication more on their own and end up more anti-Tonya.
 
. . on film...
They only got the second half! :p

They missed the whole first half in which the guy pulled back the club to hit Nancy, and the jiu jitsu lady stepped into him! He was thus off-balanced, and she used osoto gari to throw him backward.

The film did capture the second guy trying to hit her, which she parried and then she gave him a good, solid punch to the solar plexus. This was the guy captured!

By this time the first guy was getting up on his feet hauling ass out of there. And the bystanders were kind of too stunned to do anything right away. They did try to run after him and get a license number.
 
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