Detroit Free Press

HAMAR, Norway -- In the end, she was nothing more than the eighth skater of the night, a name on a list, after ...

LILLEHAMMER, Norway -- First of all, Michelle, I want you to know that even as I write this, I am wearing sequins. And velvet tights. I have puffed sleeves, a jeweled belt, pancake makeup and a blow-dried, hair-sprayed coif. I look like something out of "Aladdin" on skates. I am making an effort. I am trying.And I am sorry.I can't get with it.

LILLEHAMMER, Norway -- The second biggest fiasco of these Winter Olympics has nothing to do with figure skates, ...

LILLEHAMMER, Norway -- And now, news from the Olympics, which you can see "live" on CBS, the word "live" meaning ...

LILLEHAMMER, Norway -- You hate the Olympics. The worst moments of your life have been wrapped up inside them. At ...

LILLEHAMMER, Norway -- Things are getting crazy here in the emergency ward of the Media Hospital."Doctor! Doctor!" a nurse screams. "This man is critical!""What's the problem?" I ask."He was shoved by a reporter and swallowed his camera.""Mmmph . . . rnhmmph . . . smthtzyrt . . . yreez!""What's he saying?""He says whatever you do, save the film. He's got a shot of Tonya Harding sneezing."Before I can react, a man from "Inside Edition" offers me $1,000 for the tape of Tonya sneezing -- $1,500 if I wipe it off first.

LILLEHAMMER, Norway -- It was over that night, the career, the quest, the dream. He sat in the dressing room, ...