5 scandals that have rocked the Winter Olympics in years past 👇
, the Lake Placid plan “would, in effect, give us money to build a prison that we needed a year earlier than we had anticipated.”
Construction continued, with athletes ultimately housed two to a roughly 10-by-10-foot “sleeping room,” or four to a room that was barely larger. Before the Games,described the rooms as featuring bunk beds, heavy steel doors with peepholes, and — if you were lucky — a small window located eight feet up the wall. Just a few months after the Games, the rooms were turned into cells.
Today, the former Olympic complex continues to operate as FCI Ray Brook, a medium-security men’s prison with cell conditions known to have inspiredFew Olympic scandals have packed as big of a pop culture punch as the Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding fiasco, leading up to Norway’s 1994 Winter Olympics. It was, as the media at the time loved to call it, “the whack heard around the world.”
Here’s the gist: Kerrigan — who, like Harding, was at the height of her figure-skating career — was coming off the ice after a practice session for the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships when she was . Her unidentified attacker fled, and Kerrigan was forced to pull out of the next day’s championships. Competing without her rival, Harding easily secured the gold, as well as a spot at the upcoming Winter Olympics.
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