Nancy Kerrigan's father dies

[Arianne]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/brother_of_nanc.html?s_campaign=8315

This is very sad. It looks like her brother was involved.

Prayers go out to Nancy and her family.

 

[fairly4]

sad situtation for nancy--i am soo sorry about the loss.

 

[Phoenix347]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/brother_of_nanc.html?s_campaign=8315

This is very sad. It looks like her brother was involved.

Prayers go out to Nancy and her family.

That's horrible. My condolence to Nancy and hoping her family situation will be sorted out as best as it can be.

 

[Wicked]

This is awful. Prayers for the Kerrigan family.

 

[jcoates]

Just read about this . This is very sad. All the best to her family as this sort this all out.

Just awful.

 

[inside edge]

Prayers go out to Nancy and her family.

 

[jsteam4501s]

A father and mother who loved their skating daughter and whose devotion to her was made very public during her skating career. They stood by her after violence almost doomed her Olympic appearance - and now the father is dead. How very sad for Nancy , who has done so much for the sport of skating. My heart goes out to her and her mother.

 

[aftertherain]

Nancy just never gets a break, does she? My heart goes out to her and her family at this very troubled time.

 

[amykaren]

Thats terrible. I cant even imagine.

 

[Tonichelle]

oh my! prayers going out to the family tonight.

 

[Dee4707]

What a horrible difficult situation. I feel for Nancy and her mother. I hope the brother gets more help.

 

[demarinis5]

Such a sad situation. My sympathies to Nancy and her family.

 

[iluvtodd]

This is such a horrible loss. My thoughts, prayers, and condolences to Nancy, her mother Brenda, and family.

 

[n_halifax]

Todd Eldredge speaks about Nancy's tragedy on The Early Show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8arX_WtdfM

 

[lcd]

So sad. Circumstances very different obviously, but still, eerily reminiscent of the stabbing to death murder of Elizabeth Punsalan's father by her father just before the Olympics.

 

[n_halifax]

So sad. Circumstances very different obviously, but still, eerily reminiscent of the stabbing to death murder of Elizabeth Punsalan's father by her father just before the Olympics.

VERY TRUE! I had completely forgotten about that very sad moment. You mean "by her brother" though. Here is an article about it I found:

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/06/s...e-dancer-s-father-found-stabbed-to-death.html

I can't get over how talked about this new and horrible tragedy is though - I have heard at least three different people (non-skating people) bring it up in the past DAY. I think everyone just feels so much for someone who had already faced such a horrible tragedy (right before the Olympics ironically) before. Poor Nancy. I just feel so bad for her.

 

[kyla2]

Heartbreaking

Heartbreaking for the whole family. Nancy's mother is blind and her husband was a huge support for her. So this is tragic on many levels. My prayers go to the entire family.

 

[DesertRoad]

Well, the silver lining is that maybe this will increase interest in figure skating in the US a little, and at just the right time, too. It wouldn't be the first time tragedy for Nancy turned into ratings gold for skating.

 

[Wicked]

Nice remembrances of Dan Kerrigan from Icenetwork- http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100128&content_id=7989420&vkey=ice_news

 

[goldenpleasures]

Well, the silver lining is that maybe this will increase interest in figure skating in the US a little, and at just the right time, too.

What an appallingly cynical view.